War photographer

Question 1

What is the structure of the poem?

Answer 1

Their is a tight controlled structure with 4 verses and 6 lines per stanza.

Question 2

What does the tightly controlled structure suggests?

Answer 2

It reflects the war photographers job who is trying to oppose order on the chaos of war

Question 3

There is a juxtaposition with the neatly ordered structure suggesting what?

Answer 3

Suffering in war cannot be controlled and neatly ordered, the poem is a poem about the chaos of war so the unchanging structure suggest that the war photographers efforts are futile nothing changes everything carries on as normal.

Question 4

What does Duffy say about the fragility of life?

Answer 4

‘Belfast.Beirut.Phnom.Penh. All flesh is grass’

Question 5

What does Duffy say about the true horrors of war when she is printing out the pictures?

Answer 5

‘A hundred agonies of black and white’

Question 6

What is does Duffy say to emphasis her message of the poem?

Answer 6

‘They do not care’