War Photographer

Question 1

What are the main themes in War Photographer?

Answer 1

• Horrors of war
• Nature
• Development of photos mimics photographer’s processing of things he has witnessed
• Human effect of war

Question 2

What is the form, rhyme and structure like in War Photographer?

Answer 2

• Regular stanzas -> Constant process

* 3rd person omniscient -> Immersive

Question 3

What we some good quotes in War Photographer?

Answer 3

• “Spools of suffering set out” -> Alliteration
• “All flesh is grass” -> Oxymoron
• “Tremble” -> Precise verb
• “Simple weather” vs “nightmare heat” -> Juxtaposition
• “A half-formed ghost” -> Precise description
• “Blood stained into foreign dust” vs “Reader’s eyeballs prick with tears” -> Juxtaposition
• “Hundred agonies in black-and-white” -> Hyperbole

Question 4

What effect does “all flesh is grass” have?

Answer 4

• Life is fragile

* De-humanises man

Question 5

What effect does “spools of suffering set out” have?

Answer 5

• Photographer wants to make sense and give order to the chaotic pictures -> Human effect

Question 6

What effect does “simple weather” vs “nightmare heat” have?

Answer 6

• Horrors of war

* Simplicity of life in Britain

Question 7

What effect does “blood stained into foreign dust” vs “reader’s eyeballs prick with tears” have?

Answer 7

• Horrors of war
• “Stained” -> Lasting effect of war
• Britain doesn’t care

Question 8

What effect does “hundred agonies in black and white” have?

Answer 8

• Shows extent of war’s effect

* Can be contrasted to “editor with pick out five or six”

Question 9

What effect does “a half-formed ghost” have?

Answer 9

• Image forming or metaphor for haunting

* Symbolism for effects of war

Question 10

What effect does “tremble” have?

Answer 10

• Shows effects of war

* Haunting aftershock of war