War Photographer

Question 1

dark room

Answer 1

In his dark room he is finally alone

Question 2

Spools

Answer 2

With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Question 3

Light

Answer 3

The only light is red and softly glows

Question 4

Church

Answer 4

As though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass

Question 5

Locations

Answer 5

Belfast.Beirut.Phnon Penh

Question 6

Bible

Answer 6

All flesh is grass

Question 7

He has a

Answer 7

job to do

Question 8

slop

Answer 8

Solutions slop in trays

Question 9

reflection

Answer 9

Which did not tremble then though seem to now

Question 10

Rural

Answer 10

England

Question 11

Ordinary pain

Answer 11

which simple weather can dispel

Question 12

Fields which

Answer 12

do not explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat

Question 13

Something

Answer 13

is happening

Question 14

Ghost

Answer 14

A half-formed ghost

Question 15

Sought

Answer 15

Approval without words to do what someone must

Question 16

Blood

Answer 16

stained into foreign dust

Question 17

A hundred agonies

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in black and white

Question 18

From which his editor

Answer 18

will pick five or six for Sundays Supplement

Question 19

The readers

Answer 19

Eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers

Question 20

He stares

Answer 20

Impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care

Question 21

Themes

Answer 21

The effects of war, the indifference to society to human suffering in the worlds warzones

Question 22

Contrasts

Answer 22

Dark room to the warzone, Rural England to warzone.
The photographers feelings in the warzone and his feelings back home.
Attitude of the photographer to his work and the attitude of his editor/readers if the paper

Question 23

Rhyme scheme

Answer 23

a,b,b,c,d