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War Photographer Flashcards

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Poet

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Carol Duffy

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Key Quotes

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“He is finally alone with spools of suffering” - enjambment represents spools, sibilance = tears, metaphor for images of pain (paradox - chaos and suffering to something ordered)
“And they do not care” - public just skim over his experience in the newspaper, enough to fulfil satisfaction of knowing what happened and then moving on with rest of their lives

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Form

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Has 4 stanzas of equal length
Regular rhyme scheme
Enjambment reflects gradual revealing of photo as it develops

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Language

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Emotive language - represent true horror of conflict
War imagery - “blood”, “pain”
Numbness - “he has a job to do”

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Themes

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Effects of Conflict
Memory
Individual Experience

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Context

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1972 - the Napalm Girl during Vietnam War

Photo was published on front of New York Times

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Structure

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Follows actions and thoughts of photographer in his darkroom
Change in 3rd stanza when remembers specific death
Final stanza = work is received

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