Bruscar

Publication Instance Details #419

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR Activism/Humanitarian Work Displacement/Forced Migration HR & Natural Disasters Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem is a comparison between the 'waste' of Western societies and what is needed by the poorest people of the world. There is an explicit mention of the famine in Ethiopia which occurred in the 1980s, as well as poor children in Beijing without adequate food, a nun doing humanitarian work in Ethiopia, and the displaced people of the world in general. The speaker of the poem highlights how, in many cases, the cast-offs and rubbish of the Western world would be usable by the poor of the society. The commentary on waste and refuse from the richest in society, compared to the poverty and deprivation faced by many, highlights the obscenity of waste and excess in Western societies.