war photographer Flashcards
Written in third person?
deliberate structure choice, further reinforces how no one understands the vocation of a war photographer
she was friends with many war photographers and wanted to highlight the horrors of wars go beyond the battle field
Why did the war photographer have no name?
to strip away his identity
‘dark room’
a metaphor for his thoughts and the mental trauma a war photographer endures is further reinforced due to the hand that ‘tremble’ normally because of PTSD
Who might this have been inspired by?
the suicide of Kevin Carter as a result of his work as a war photographer,
‘ordinary pain’
there is a sense of disconnect between the photographer and the real world, ‘prick’ of the ‘readers eyeballs’, showing that we are so desensitised to war that we are only momentarily sad
How does the poem explore the tension between the photographers duty?
‘do what someone must’ in his own emotional response, although by the end the adverb ‘impassively’ suggests that he has conditioned himself to be desensitised to the human cost of conflict
