War photographer

Question 1

quote 1

Answer 1

a priest preparing to intone a mass./Belfast.Beirut.Phnom penh.All flesh is grass./

Question 2

quote 2

Answer 2

faintly start to twist before his eyes,/a half formed ghost.

Question 3

quote 3

Answer 3

A hundred agonies in black- and- white

Question 4

quote 4

Answer 4

from the aeroplane he stares impassively at where/he earns the living and they do not care.

Question 5

context

Answer 5

-looks at the contrast between war zones and safety of being back
- friends with two war photographers
-written about vietnam war
-war photographers work often unrecognised yet a voice of truth through images
-meticulous order in developing room but chaos in tray as image revealed, purgatorial state

Question 6

structure

Answer 6

-four stanzas of equal length with regular rhyme scheme , order and structure is artificially imposed over chaos and disorder of war
-poem set out in ordered rows like spools of film, empathy for photographer
-cyclical structure as photographer returns to war zone
-enjambment represents gradual revelation of image as it develops