War Photographer

Question 1

What are the important quotes from War Photgrapher?

Answer 1

• “eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”
• “how he sought approval”
• “a hundred agonies in black and white”

Question 2

Analyse : “eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”

Answer 2

Juxtaposes “tears” with the very comfortable images of “bath” and “pre lunch beers.” Can be read almost angrily, their tears are meaningless and this is a small pause in their life, not of worth to them.

Question 3

What poem is this from “eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”

Answer 3

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Question 4

Analyse : “how he sought approval”

Answer 4

the personal pronoun he emphasises a namelessness, that he is one of many but also a sense of detachment and guilt in the tone.

Question 5

What is this from “how he sought approval”

Answer 5

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Question 6

analyse “a hundred agonies in black and white”

Answer 6

• Pun/ dark humour , bitter. Black and white in newspapers but also emphasis on the morality, war is black and white. Its direct contrast between opposing side of the war and there are no areas of grey were you can stop or live for yourself.

Question 7

What is “a hundred agonies in black and white” from

Answer 7

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