War Photographer

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  • Created on: 07-04-17 16:20
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  • War Photographer
    • Form
      • It has 4 stanzas of equal lengths.
    • Language
      • Very powerful language
        • "Running children in a nightmare of heat"
          • Shows how everyone is affected by war and that there is no escaping it
        • "His editor will pick out five or 6"
          • The editor is playing God he is choosing which pictures to use to make the readers think about and cry at.
          • Shows that there aren't important enough to have all the pictures chosen
    • Imagery
      • there is lots of powerful and emotive imagery throughout the poem
        • This reflects the horrors which the photographer saw and captured in his photos
      • The poet is trying to recreate what the photographer saw for the readers to show them how bad it s in war zone areas
      • There is also religious imagery
        • It makes the photographer sound like a priest conducting a funeral when he is developing the pictures
    • Rhythm Rhyme
      • It has a regular rythme scheme
      • The words on last 2 lines of each stanza rhyme (Rhyming couplets)
    • Themes + Techniques
      • Memory- the photographer memories are triggered by the development of the photos in his darkroom
        • "which did not tremble then though seemed to now"
          • This shows that him remembering the scenes are difficult. The memories seemed to affect him more then than seeing it in real life
      • Individual experience- seeing the conflict left the photographer feeling isolated
        • "In his darkroom he is finally alone"
          • This shows that he needs space and quite to reflect on his experiences.
          • Also hints at his guilt about being able to escape the "Suffering"
      • Juxtaposition-"Rural England home again"
        • Poets used this as England contrasts the war zone area
          • so she is trying to get across to the reader the difference between the two places.
      • Simile- "As though this were a church"
        • Duffy has used this to show what the pictures and darkroom represents and how it could be a funeral in the church.
    • Structure
      • The poem follows the actions and thoughts of the photographer in his darkroom
      • There's a distinct change at the start of the 3rd stanza
        • When the photographer remembers a specific death.
      • In the final stanza the focus shifts to the way the photographer work is received
    • Comparison
      • Remains
        • Shows how memory can't haunted people also has vivid imagery and metaphors
      • Poppies
        • Talks about how war affects different people and the price of war to humans.
    • Storyline
      • A war photographer is in a darkroom developing his pictures which were taken in a war zone area
      • In the last stanza it talks about the commercial perspective of the situation, he starts to believe that no one cares.

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