Power And Conflict Poetry - War Photographer

Question 1

Who wrote War Photographer?

Answer 1

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 2

What is the structure?

Answer 2

Lines of similar length show repetition of war

Question 3

What is the big idea?

Answer 3

The idea of power in war from the perspective of an onlooker

Question 4

spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Answer 4

Assonance and sibilance draws attention to horrifying conflict
Missiles

Question 5

Priest
mass

Answer 5

Religion

Question 6

Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.

Answer 6

Plosives sounds of gunfire
Caesura allows time for empathy

Question 7

Solutions slop

Answer 7

Ambiguous reference to war and also photography
Sibilance

Question 8

Rural England.

Answer 8

Distances England from the conflict

Question 9

to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel

Answer 9

Haunted by war

Question 10

Something is happening.

Answer 10

Caesura isolates sentence and puts emphasis

Question 11

half-formed ghost

Answer 11

Starved, empty of emotion
Photographs capture emotion

Question 12

without words to do what someone must

Answer 12

Might have to kill/ not get involved to stay alive

Question 13

A hundred agonies in black-and-white

Answer 13

Metaphor
War is never just right or wrong

Question 14

Sunday’s supplement

Answer 14

No time to rest in war

Question 15

between the bath and pre-lunch beers

Answer 15

Anger at reader for having so little empathy and more apathy
People don’t care enough to do something about someone else’s suffering