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    A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent"
    A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent"
    A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent"
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    A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent"

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    A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535840385
    A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent"

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      A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent" - Gale

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      The War Correspondent

      Ciaran Carson

      2003

      Introduction

      The War Correspondent, by Irish poet Ciaran Carson, appears in Carson's collection, Breaking News (2003). It consists of seven poems, all but one of which are set in the Crimea at the time of the Crimean War. This war took place between 1854 and 1856 and pitted a British and French alliance against Russia for influence in the Near East. The Crimea is a region off the Black Sea in present-day Ukraine.

      The War Correspondent is based on dispatches from the Crimea written by Anglo-Irish war correspondent William Howard Russell for readers of the Times, a London newspaper. In his notes to Breaking News, Carson writes that The War Correspondent is "especially indebted to his [Russell's] writing; in many instances I have taken his words verbatim, or have changed them only slightly to accommodate rhyme and rhythm. Taken together, the seven poems in The War Correspondent" convey a sense of the wastefulness and destruction of war, set against the ever-recurring rhythms of nature.

      Author Biography

      Ciaran Carson was born on October 9, 1948, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of Liam Carson, a postman. He acquired his taste for language and storytelling very early. He recalls that when he was two or three, his father would tell his children stories in Gaelic every evening, and each story would continue (at least it seemed that way to the child) for weeks.

      Carson was educated at Queen's University in Belfast, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. From 1974 to 1975, he worked as a schoolteacher in Belfast, after which he became the Traditional Arts officer for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in Belfast, a position he held until 1998.

      Carson's first volume of poetry was The New Estate (1976), followed by The Irish For No (1987). In the latter collection, Carson, who was raised as a Catholic, reflects with humor and satire on the violent situation in Belfast. This book appeared during the civil conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles, in which the majority Protestants, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, clashed with the minority Catholics, many of whom

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