War Photographer
- Created by: Clarky100
- 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
- "Running children in a nightmare of heat"
- Very powerful language
- 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
- there is lots of powerful and emotive imagery throughout the poem
- 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
- "which did not tremble then though seemed to now"
- 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"
- "In his darkroom he is finally alone"
- 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.
- Poets used this as England contrasts the war zone area
- 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.
- Memory- the photographer memories are triggered by the development of the photos in his darkroom
- 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.
- Remains
- 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.
- Form
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