War Photographer Flashcards

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Quote 1: lonely bastard

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“He is finally alone” - finds solace in being alone, surrounded by despair

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Quote 2: spools and graves

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“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”- “rows” like graves, spools of camera film

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Quote 3: red

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“The only light is red” - red room

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“This were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass” - mass of death , intone = chant

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“All flesh is grass” - biblical allusions being returned to the ground

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“He has a job to do” - cog

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“His hands, which did not tremble then” - mechanised

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“Rural England” - reflects how foreign his own home life is and how he’s shot there

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“Fields which don’t explode beneath the feet” - mines, how comfortable he has become in war

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“Running children in a nightmare heat” - naypalm, bioweapon

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Quote 11:do the twist with yo face stranger

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“A strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes” - “twisting” - in death

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“Half- formed ghost” - haunted

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Quote 13: sought apuval

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“Sought approval” - morality

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“Blood stained into foreign dust” constant , in great magnitude

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“A hundred agonies in black and white” - not lives, black and white

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“Pick out five or six”- giving value to suffering

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“Between the bath and prelunch beers”
- easy for them to say

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Quote 18:

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“They do not care” - reality

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Context:

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Inspired by friend who was a war photographer, important to develop by hand , spools = cylindrical device on which film can be would

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Poet:

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Carol Ann Duffy