War Photographer Flashcards
Who wrote it?
Carol Ann Duffy
When was it published?
In 1985 as part of Duffy’s collection ‘Standing Female Nude’
When did she become Poet Laureate?
2009
What’s Napalm Girl?
Nick Ut’s photo of a nine year old girl taken during the Vietnam War. It shows the girl, Kim Phuc, running naked towards the camera in extreme pain after being severely burnt by a napalm bomb. The photo was published on the front page of the New York Times and won a Pulitzer Prize
What are the poets attitudes?
To express how harrowing this job is on a photographer
To show how important war photographs are in expressing the reality of conflict
List all the techniques
FORM:
4 stanzas of equal length & regular AABB rhyme scheme
3rd person narrative
STRUCTURE: Enjambment FLI LLI Volta Caesuras and end stopped line Internal rhyme Short, simple sentences
LANGUAGE: War imagery Simile with alliteration Religious references Irony Contrasting soft sounds Soldier and war references Sibilant and plosives sounds Emotive metaphor Consonance Succession of plosives sounds
Recite your introduction sentence
War photographer, published in 1985 as part of Duffy’s collection ‘Standing Female Nude’, is about a war photographer - based in someone he knows - and follows him reminiscing about his job and the effects of it on the public. It was written to express how harrowing this job is, yet goes greatly unappreciated by society.
Recite your conclusion
Duffy is a Scottish poet who became the first woman to hold the post of Poet Laureate in 2009. Her poem greatly expresses how harrowing, painful and detaching the job of a war photographer is, yet also looks at how crucial it is, as the reference to ‘Napalm Girl’ signifies how some photos can actually help to end wars.
