poems war photograph

Question 1

overview

Answer 1

developing pictures that has been taken in different war zones. As the picture develops he recalls the death of one man and remembers the cries of his wife
Duffy was inspired to write this poem be her friendship with a photojournalist.

Question 2

structure

Answer 2

Laid out in four regular six-line stanzas with each stanza ending in a rhyming couplet.
This shows organisation to restore order in a chaotic world.
Also very clinical like his job, this sense of distance is key

Question 3

quotes that shows allusions

Answer 3

“running children in a nightmare heat” “Belfast. Beirur. Phnom penh”

famous events that she has seen

Question 4

quote that shows sibilance

Answer 4

“spools of suffering” “solutions slop”
solemn tone of funeral, spools are continuous thread
s is quite messy

Question 5

quote that shows bathos

Answer 5

“the readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”

show the luxuries and difference that we just ignore and carry on

Question 6

what is bathos

Answer 6

anti-climax by creating a lapse in the mood

Question 7

quotes

Answer 7

“all flesh is grass”

“ordered rows”