War Photographer Flashcards
1
Q
The reassurance of the frame is flexible
A
-personification
- frame connotes confinement, limitation, and restriction
- fricative alliteration
- contrast between frame and flexible
2
Q
I seek out the tragic, the absurd to make a subject
A
- Hope? = immorality
- Parts of war reflect reality is tragic, problematic, subjective and difficult
- Makes money off of suffering and destruction = immoral
- Interpretation, distortion of reality
3
Q
the firmness of the edges can convince you /
this is how things are are
A
- Irony : protecting the viewers, little support for those photographed
- Limitations
4
Q
As one at ascot once
As last week
A
- Temporal markers show both are in the speakers experience
- Anaphora emphasises ignorance, and the belief that life is the same for everyone
- Shows contrast
- Ascot is a symbol of luxury of being carefree
5
Q
A small girl, staggering down some devastated street
A
- mirrors those at ascot
- Alliteration: emphasises horror of destruction and vulnerability
- repetition of ignorance shows naïveté
6
Q
Instinct prevailing, she dropped her burden and, mouth too small for her dark scream, began to run…
A
- Deserted baby: shows desperation and suffering
- Repetition of small: vulnerability is emphasised
- Dark: metaphorical, haunted, synaethesic imagery, suffering, vulnerability, limitations of the frame
- Enjambment: chaos
7
Q
Even in hell, the human spirit triumphs over all
A
- Twisted
- False
- Reaffirms limitation of the frame
- Deception through media
- Ignorance, thoughtlessness and irresponsibility
8
Q
But Hell like Heaven, is untidy, its boundaries arbitrary as a blood stain on the wall
A
- Deceptive
- Extended metaphor
- Imagery: binary contrast
- Arbitrary: random, meaningless
- Blood stain: evidence of violence, violent imagery, undefined
- Simile
9
Q
Quatrains
A
- create false sense of security
- emphasises devastation in the next stanza
