War Photographer

Question 1

War photographer

__________ children in a _________ ________

Answer 1

Running children in a nightmare heat

Reference to the Vietnam war. Hint at importance of work helping to end the war. End of innocence. Semantic field of hell. Powerful effect on the reader.

Question 2

War photographer

How the ______ stained into ______ dust.

Answer 2

How the blood stained into foreign dust

Happening somewhere else. Literal: blood stains dust in foreign places. Figuratively: stain on his memory from witnessing things.

Question 3

War photographer

With _____ of _____ set out in ______ rows

Answer 3

With spools of suffering set out in ordering rows

Carey’s film for cameras contain interception images suffering. Sibilance emphasis the suffering. Ordered show there is logic in war.

Question 4

War photographer

All ______ is ______.

Answer 4

All flesh is grass.

Metaphor flesh on the floor is so common it is grass. It is also seen as grass so people dismiss it.

Question 5

War photographer

A ______-formed ______

Answer 5

A half-formed ghost.

Metaphor image on photos forming on a man who is now dead. Or a dead man. Body has been mutilated.