War Photographer Flashcards
Who is the poet of war photographer?
Carol Ann Duffy
What is the poets experience with Conflict/War/Society?
Poet laureate who’s friend was a photographer, tasked with capturing images of war- (Duffy wanted to show the truth of this experience)
What is the message of war photographer?
Shows the hidden impacts of war on all levels of experience,
+ and that the further away from conflict, the less those in powers care
What is the quote “spools of suffering set out in ordered rows” using as a method?
Metaphor and sibilance
What does the quote “All flesh is grass” use as a method?
Metaphor
What does the quote “pick out five or six” use as a method?
Imagery (+Juxtaposition)
What quote uses a metaphor to represent the film from the camera capturing death and destruction?
Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
What quote uses a metaphor to show how the figures memories of war are filled with mass death and destruction ?
“All flesh is grass”
What quote uses imagery (+ Juxtaposition) to contrast images of war with back come, creating frustration at the lack of care for those suffering at war?
“Pick out five or six”
What is the analysis of the quote “Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows” (Metaphor)
Represents the film from the camera depicting death and destruction, imagery creates the idea of a cemetery/gravestones where dead bodies are buried
What is the analysis of the quote “Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows” (Sibilance)
Created impression that true horrors and impacts of war are quietened (like a whisper) -showing how they can get noticed, but not fully comprehended in its full brutality behind the veil of daily life,
What is the analysis of the quote “all flesh is grass”?
Represents how his memories of war are filled with mass death and destruction, seemingly walking on the bodies of the dead and buried.
shown by how grass is natural,reflecting how extreme death within war is inevitable to the point of just being “natural”
What is the analysis of the quote “pick out five or six”
Juxtaposition between war and home life shows lack of care for those suffering, as editor selects the “best” photos without caring for the agonies of those people
(Hypocrisy of those back home; act caring but don’t.)
Good comparison to War photographer?
Remains:
1st and 3rd person perspective of how war affects those fighting- both portray Trauma within vivid violent imagery representing memory -R uses soldiers PTSD ,-WP uses photographs.
