War Photographer

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Friends with a war photographer

Question 2

Structure of the poem

Answer 2

Tight structure with 4 stanzas and 6 lines per. There is a rigid rhyme scheme. It juxtaposes the chaos of war. The war photographers efforts are futile

Question 3

Caesura

Answer 3

‘.rural England.’ Used in caesura contrasting and separating from the war.

Question 4

Cyclical structure

Answer 4

Suggests the futile efforts of the photographer who tries to spread the war but people do not care

Question 5

Religious imagery

Answer 5

Contrast between the ‘dark room’ and ‘red’ light with the ‘church’
‘All flesh is grass’ biblical reference where life is temporary and fragile. We do not acknowledge the fragility of like like how we do not acknowledge the war

Question 6

Use of caesura and plosives

Answer 6

‘Belfast, beirut, Phnom Penh’ use of caesura force us to stop and recognise these places

Question 7

Ambiguity at the end

Answer 7

‘They do not care’ it could be about the public or the reader.