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Comparison between Tianamen and Belfast Confetti. The poem Tiananmen is about protest, about the people who died whilst protesting. Tiananmen is a square of national importance, in Peking, China. It was a scene of world famous event in the late 1980's and was written in Hong Kong. The poem Belfast Confetti is also about protest and the people who died. The man, who wrote the poem was a journalist, he was at the town when …

…conclusion the two poems compare because they are both protest poems, and about the people who died whilst they were protesting. Also they are both at capital cities. However they are both different because in Tiananmen the government kills the protesters, but in Belfast Confetti the protesters are the ones killing the innocent people. Tiananmen is a communist capital whereas Belfast Confetti is a scene of sectarian troubles. So overall I preferred to read Tiananmen.