11) War Photographer: quotes

Question 1

In his darkroom, the photographer is alone with “s__ o_ s__ s__ o__ i_ o__ r__”.

Answer 1

…“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”.

Question 2

The second stanza opens with “h_ h__ a j__ t_ d_”.

Answer 2

…“he has a job to do”.

Question 3

The photographer’s “h__, w__ d__ n__ t__ t__ … s__ t_ n__”.

Answer 3

…“(his) hands, which did not tremble then…seem to now”.

Question 4

Duffy describes that the photographer is “h__ a__ / t_ o__ p__ … t_ f__ w__ d__ e__ b__ t__ f__ / o_ r__ c__ i_ a n__ h__”.

Answer 4

…“home again / to ordinary pain…to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet / of running children in a nightmare heat”.

Question 5

As one photo forms, “a s__ f__ / f__ s__ t_ t__ … a h__-f__ g__”.

Answer 5

…“a stranger’s features / faintly start to twist…a half-formed ghost”.

Question 6

The photographer knows that he is doing “w__ s__ m__”, rhymed with “t__ b__ s__ i__ f__ d__”.

Answer 6

…“what someone must…the blood stained into foreign dust”.

Question 7

The photographer has captured “a h__ a__ i_ b__ a__ w__ / f__ w__ h__ e__ w__ p__ o__ f__ o_ s__”.

Answer 7

…“a hundred agonies in black and white / from which his editor will pick out five or six”.

Question 8

Duffy describes how “t__ h__ e__ p__ / w__ t__ b__ t__ b__ a__ p__-l__ b__”.

Answer 8

…“the reader’s eyeballs prick / with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”.

Question 9

The photographer “s__ i__ a_ w__ / h_ e__ h__ l__ a__ t__ d_ n__ c__”.

Answer 9

…“(he) stares impassively at where / he earns his living and they do not care”.

Question 10

Give 3 quotes which refer to the duty the photographer feels he has to fulfil.

Answer 10

1) “he has a job to do” 2) “to do what someone must” 3) “he stares impassively at where / he earns his living and they do not care”

Question 11

Give 2 quotes which demonstrate the way the photographer’s work is glamorised and refined.

Answer 11

1) “spools of suffering set out in ordered rows” 2) “a hundred agonies in black and white / from which his editor will pick out five or six”

Question 12

Give 2 quotes which show the indifference of the public towards the conflict the photographer captures.

Answer 12

1) “the reader’s eyeballs prick / with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers” 2) “he stares impassively at where / he earns his living and they do not care”

Question 13

Give 3 quotes which show the effects on the photographer of both conflict itself and the way in which his work capturing it is received by the public eye.

Answer 13

1) “his hands, which did not tremble then…seem to now” 2) “home again / to ordinary pain” 3) “he stares impassively”

Question 14

Give 3 quotes which show the effects of conflict which the photographer observes.

Answer 14

1) “home again / to ordinary pain…to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet / of running children in a nightmare heat” 2) “a stranger’s features / faintly start to twist…a half-formed ghost” 3) “the blood stained into foreign dust”