War Photographer
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 24-05-18 13:02
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- War Photographer
- Form
- Four stanzas of equal length
- Enjambment
- Final rhyming couplet
- Structure
- Actions and thoughts, stanza 3 recalls a specific death
- Each stanza starts with a simple snapshot
- Context
- Based on conversations with her friend Don McCullin
- Poet laureate
- Quotes
- "Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass."
- "a half-formed ghost"
- "Something is happening"
- "He remembers the cries of this man's wife"
- "Rural England."
- "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
- "as though this were a church and he/a priest"
- "A hundred agonies in black-and white"
- "he stares impassively at where/He earns his living and they do not care"
- "his editor will pick out five or six/For Sunday's supplement"
- "The reader's eyeballs *****/With tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers."
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