War photographer Flashcards
Finally alone
Adverb- been suffering all day and finally out. Life as war photographer is chaotic and dark room is quiet isolation
Spools of suffering
Allliteration and sibilance- disturbing images , sibilance, emphasises the plural scale of suffering
Ordered rows
Adjective, coping mechanism to impose some order of the chaos of war
As though this were a church
Simile- view of the job to show world, likens role to a priest as he’s delivering a spiritual message to audience
All flesh is grass
Biblical illusion- developing room controls room like Priestley’s controls church. Emphasise fragility of life and physical life how easily war prematurely ruins lives
He has a job to do.
Caesura. Matter of fact tone it’s his job but it has a psychological impact
Did not tremble then though seem to now
A form of ptsd , return feelings that are repressed in war zone.
Rural England.
Caesura- emphasises juxtaposition between quiet life in England and horrific environment of war
Ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel
Adjectives- imply that war zones pain is extraordinary and complex
Between the feet of children runnin* in a nightmare hear
Rhyming cuplet, emphasises chaos and rhyming like child books. Emotive and shocking as children are innocent
Tone and pace
Calmly explaining th job and conveying feelings
A stranger features start to twist before his eyes a half formed ghost
Metaphor- negative white like a ghost. Saying images are haunting his mind and making him traumatised. He’s reserecting the dead through images
Do what someone must
Modal verb - he feels it’s his duty to inform readers about horrors of war, struggles morally and feels powerless.
Blood stained into foreign dust
Verb- The shear amount of blood. His mind is stained psychologically by what he’s witnessed
Structure- 4,6
Stanzas each ending in rhyming cuplet orderly poetic structure that contrasts with chaos of war.
A hundred agonies , five or six
Refrain, Use of contrasting number- hundreds of Images public only see a few and yet are carefully edited so public don’t see scale
Sundays supplement
Suggest suffering is less important than main news
Tears between baths and pre lunch beers
Internal rhyme- emphasises the publics emotional reaction its brief before they enjoy rest of day contrast to war p issues
From aeroplane
Flying between war zones implore war is constant empathy and pity
They do not care
The pronoun shows the public aren’t bothered they should reconsider their thoughts
Impassively
Adverb he emotionally detached to deaths.
