War photographer Flashcards
Spools of suffering
Metaphor, sibilance- emphasises scale of suffering
As though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass
Comparing developing room to a church and photographer to a priest delivering a spiritual message
All flesh is grass
Fragility of man. Glory of man dies with the flesh
Rural England
Juxtaposition between peaceful environment of home and horrific environment of war
Half formed ghost
Negative of developing image resembles ghost
Images of suffering are haunting him
Stained
WP is stained psychologically by war
Do what someone ‘must’
Modal verb- has a duty to inform viewers of horrors of war
Four 6 lines stanzas ending in rhyming couplets
Orderly, poetic structure contrasts chaos of war
Sunday’s supplement
Implies suffering of people is less important of that of the news in the main paper
Five or Six
Contrast in use of number. Hundreds of images to five or six in the newspaper. The public have a limited view of war
Impassively
Implies he has to emotionally detach himself to function as a WP
They do not care
We are the public. Makes us reconsider our response to global suffering
From aeroplane
Constantly moving from one warzone to another
