War Photographer Flashcards
What is a word for lot’s of short cuts in the sentence
Caesura
What is a another word for contrast
Juxtaposition
What is the Biblical illusion in “All flesh is grass”
Insignificance of life during war
What device is used for “spools of suffering”
Sibilance
What is Belfast.Beirut.Phnom Penh described as
Historical places
What does “stained in foreign dust “ refer to
That the war will permanently be remembered there
What is dichotomy
A divide or contrast
Who is “they” at the end of the poem
The public and the people he works for
What does impassively mean
No emotion
What does this mean “Ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel”
Good weather can fix our pain
What his problem with this”From which his editor will pick out five or six”
That all the rest he’s put effort in go in the bin
What connotations is “Ordered rows”
Graveyard connotations
What does “prick” “mean in the readers eyeballs prick”
That the reader feels sad for a bit and doesn’t care
What does “half-formed ghost” mean in the poem
That he can see the people in pain from the photos
“Fields which don’t explode beneath our feet”
Because in England fields don’t explode beneath our feet
