War Photographer

Question 1

‘with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’

Answer 1

.half-rhyme in the line
.quickens the pace of the final verse
.shows how fast people forget the horrors of war

Question 2

. Rural England.

Answer 2

.caesura
.separated from the descriptions of other war zones.
.how people in the poem are able to separate what they see from the reality of the situation

Question 3

‘dark room’ - ‘red light’

Answer 3

evil connotations

Question 4

‘church’ - ‘mass’

Answer 4

.religious imagery
.contrasts with ‘dark’ and ‘red’

Question 5

‘the spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’

Answer 5

.war graves
.structured and organised
.juxtaposes with the theme of chaos

Question 6

‘All flesh is grass’

Answer 6

.Biblical reference
.highlighting the fragility of life
.ignored by society like the war pictures

Question 7

‘Belfast.Beirut.Phnom Penh.’

Answer 7

.plosives
.like gunfire
.caesura - full stops break up the lines forces you to think about the places

Question 8

‘half formed ghost’

Answer 8

.picture developing and fading into existence
.suggests injuries in war
.half a memory - last memories in the photos

Question 9

‘he earns his living and they do not care’

Answer 9

.they - public? wider audience? reader?