war photographer Flashcards
Meaning/Message
Duffy is exploring the war photographers trauma as well as criticising the photographers hypocrisy and questioning wether we should believe everything we see in the media
Language feautures
- metaphors
- vivid imagery ( religous)
Title
war photographer we never get the photographers name. detachment
Structure
- rhyming couplets
- Photographer starts powerful ends weak
’ A hundred agonies in black and white’
Metaphor
talking about spools of photographs that photographer carries around. emotional baggage
‘A priest preparing to intone a mass’
Vivid imagery (religous)
reverence. Understand the power of the photos also somber
‘Half- formed ghost’
Vivid imagery
He is haunted by memories of death
‘the bath and pre-lunch beers’
Criticising
Trying to shame/embarrass the reader
he stares imapassively
Detachment
his editor will pick out five or six
He has no real power. Questioning how the media can cherry pick from the terrors the people are suffering .
Stanzas
S 1- starts to feel emotion
S 2 - 3 : numb detached
s4 - attacks reader
Rhyming couplets
Creates a sense of order and symbolises the detachmen tthe photographer feels to the fact that he is used to seeing such suffering. it is not a shock but monotonous and an everyday fact of life
Photographers guilt
Questions the photographers hypocritical guilt and ptsd . He chose this job the people he photographs didn’t.
Starts powerful
Starts referred to as a ‘priest’
ends weak and lacking ‘real’ power and how ‘he sought approval’
