anthology: war photographer.

Question 1

what is the purpose and meaning of the text?

Answer 1

• what happens to the photos after.
• what happened to the captured scene.
• metaphor for how developing metaphor feels for him.
• emotional and social development impacted.
• how he is affected and how he might cope.

Question 2

what is the context of the text?

Answer 2

• features a friendship with 2 war photographers.
• fascinated by what makes someone do the job and how it makes them feel.
• vietnam- kids running around, 1 burnt clothes off, sticky fire, burnt forest.

Question 3

language and structure: explanation and quotes.

Answer 3

• 4 stanzas.
• 6 lines per stanza.
• regular rhyme scheme.
• imposes order in chaos of war.
• like photographer, order photos, makes sense of chaos.
• 6 times 4 paragraphs, same size of photograph.
• ‘all flesh is grass’- bible Isaiah 40:6, shortness of life.
• sibilance- something is being seen that shouldn’t of happened.
• ‘solution slop in trays’- ambiguity, chemicals/splashing to war, implies carelessness.

Question 4

key quotes.

Answer 4

• ‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.’
• ‘solutions slop in trays.’
• ’ he remembers the cries of this mans wife.’
• a hundred agonies in black and white.’
• ‘the readers eyeballs will prick between the bath and pre-lunch beers.’

Question 5

what does it pair well with?

Answer 5

remains and prelude.