Literature, throughout history, has recounted historical and cultural aspects of a society. Ireland has a rich artistic background. It ranges from traditional art of song, music, dance and pictures to poetry, short stories, myths, and art of storytelling. Different authors including Ciaran Carson have used a combination of the arts and add personal attributes. Like his father before him, Ciaran Carson is a gifted Irish artist. He has used his vivid imagination, his childhood memories, and his artistic words to create six volumes of poetry, 3 novels, and 2 books of Irish history and culture.
Ciaran Carson is famous for his poetry and musical talent; however, his most famous attribute of his writing style is combination of poetry and music. In one of his notorious works, Last Night's Fun, he combined a series of essays and traditional tunes that inspired his work of poetry and quotations. From using his unique method of combining words and music together made his writings become vivid depictions of historical and contemporary Northern Ireland. Each set of writings combine to form chapters, that mostly tend not to be related. His writings and topics vary and do not tend to stay on track, jumping from subject to subject, where each new idea inspires a tangential subject. Carson's method of writing may be scattershot, but it really only depicts the cultural music. It depicts an Irish musician playing a piece of music that starts with tone, then string into another and several more, until it a creates a whole. .
Through his father's storytelling before him, Ciaran Carson has used his home land and experiences to shape his works of art. In his works, he is very careful of keeping historical preservation, even during times of uncertainty in his country. Ciaran Carson is a talented writer, with a gift for lengthy, intricate, and enthralling descriptions that create images clearer than many a painter is capable of.
The relationship that exists between literature and history is inextricably tied to our understanding of self-existence. In order to understand one's history is to understand the vernacular; the vernacular is the original language spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region (Google Dictiona...
