War photographer Flashcards
Stucture, perspective, language ,imagery, tone, symbolism
Purpose
Carol Ann duffy highlights how people in the west are isolated from the horrors of war
We are desentisised to the sufferering
Structure
(Yes it does include rhyme scheme)
ABBCDD rhyme scheme-
muddled up rhyme scheme mostly with 10 syllables which reflects the war photographers futile attempts to impose control over the chaotic warfront.
- cyclical structure
Caesura “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.”
1 line sentences and caesura forces the reader to think about the countries
it could also be the photographer slowly considering the suffering from war and respecting them
enjambment could symbolise the lack of control e.g the mans wife crying
Imagery contrast
Images of comfort e.g “rural england” “ordinary pain which simpel weather can dispel”
“bath and the prelunch beers”
“sunday supplement”
DIRECTLY CONTRASTED
“Running children in a nightmare heat”
“cries of this mans wife”
“blood-stained”
“fields which dont expode beneath the feet”
This contrast is used to highlight how individuals in countries without war are unaffected by the photos “they do not care”
Imagery annotations
biblical imagery
“All flesh is grass”
- suggesting life is temporary
- biblical allusion + intertexuality
- points out the scale of bloodshed
- “as though this were a church and he/ a priest preparing to intone a mass”
- “the only light is red and softly glows”
- a intertextual reference to a continous red light ina catholic church symbolising christs presence
“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
- contrast between what the photographer tries to do and the reality of conflict
Language
“spools of suffering in ordered rows”
-metaphor
“all flesh is grass “
- metaphor
- anectode
“He remembers the cries / of this mans wife, how he sought approval/ without words to do what someone must/and how the blood stained into foreign dust
“A strangers features faintly start to twist”
metaphor - hes twisting in pain
