War photography
- Created by: isaacruhinda
- Created on: 06-05-18 17:33
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- War photographer
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Scottish poet
- in 2oo9 became the first woman to hold the post of poet Laurette
- poem published in 1985
- part of her collection... "Standing Female Nude"
- Friends with Don McCullin
- a famous photographer known for his war photography
- The impossibility of presenting the true horrors of war
- Structure & Form
- 4 stanzas all with 6 lines and a regular rhyme scheme
- tight control
- like his spools, it is "set out in ordered rows"
- shows the photographer cares about his work
- like war graves
- everything organised unlike real war and conflict
- like his spools, it is "set out in ordered rows"
- tight control
- enjambment
- reflects the gradual revealing of the photograph
- Volta at start of stanza 3
- he remembers a specific death
- focus switches to the personal cost of war
- he remembers a specific death
- final stanza
- focuse switches to how his work is received
- cyclical structure
- it begins with him coming back from a trip and ends with him going back on another trip "from the aeroplane"
- fate
- everything is predetermined and set
- 4 stanzas all with 6 lines and a regular rhyme scheme
- Detachment
- Caesura
- "Rural England."
- the full stops separate it from the description of the war zones
- people are able to separate what they see in photographs from the reality of the situation
- people look at the images of war and be temporarily moved but fail to grasp the true horrors of war
- people are able to separate what they see in photographs from the reality of the situation
- the full stops separate it from the description of the war zones
- "Rural England."
- internal rhyme
- "tears" and "beers"
- quickens the pace
- represents the speed people forget
- teers quickly replaced by beers
- people look at the images of war and be temporarily moved but fail to grasp the true horrors of war
- represents the speed people forget
- quickens the pace
- "tears" and "beers"
- Caesura
- Reality of War
- metaphor
- "half formed ghost"
- literally the photo is developing
- metaphorically it suggest the body has been mutilated
- "blood stained into foreign dust"
- "foreign" is a reminder that this is happening somewhere else
- "stained" shows the lasting impact of war
- "half formed ghost"
- metaphor
- Ending
- "they do not care"
- ambigous
- is it the leaders of the newspapers who don't care about the victims of war
- anger
- is it the public who are apathetic about others suffering
- anger
- is it the public who are apathetic about others suffering
- is it us
- the readers of the poem who read it and quickly move on and forget
- is it the leaders of the newspapers who don't care about the victims of war
- ambigous
- "they do not care"
- Carol Ann Duffy
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