War Photographer Flashcards

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Who wrote War photographer

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Carol Ann Duffy

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What is the poem literally about

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A war photographer is describing developing images where a photo will be chosen for the Sunday paper and the horrific nature of this job and how readers are blind to the suffering

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What is Duffy critiquing in the poem

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How the western world has become indifferent (unconcerned) to the suffering of war.

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What war does the poem refer to

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Vietnam war

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Was Duffy poet Laurette

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Yes

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The war photographer is conflicted about his job why? The war photographer is also like s soldier why?

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Should he take photographs or help the victims. As he experiences war first hand and has to withhold his emotions in a war zone

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Is the structure of the stanzas regular or irregular? And what does each stanza end in

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In regular 6 line stanzas each ending in a rhyming couplet

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It is written in a ________ structure

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cyclic structure (story follows in a circular pattern)

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What are the 2 main themes

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Brutality of war, effects of conflict

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‘______ of suffering ___ ___ in ordered ____’

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‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
- metaphor - links to rows of war graves
- suffering could link to Christ = dead are reborn in the photos to teach us something
- Sibilance gives foreboding (something bad will happen) tone
- Duel pain (those affected by war and the photographer witnessing it)

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‘A _______ agonies in _____ and _____’

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‘A hundred agonies in black and white’
- Metaphorical representation of victims pain
- Sympathy for those experiencing war and the photographer documenting the horrific events
- hundreds = extent of agony he’s witnessed
- By reducing the photographs to the emotions they convey, it establishes the theme of the trauma and suffering of war

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‘his _____ which did not _______ then though ____ to ___’

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‘his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now’
- Hands must be steady when taking photo = must hide emotions
- Enjambment = shift from warzone to studio
- When he reflects he feels anxiety = inescapable effects of war

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