War Photographer

Question 1

“Running children in nightmare heat”

Answer 1

• Designed to make the reader understand the intensity of the suffering caused by war.
• Duffy refers to children to remind the reader of the innocent lives affected by war

Question 2

“A hundred agonies in black and white”

Answer 2

Designed to make the reader understand the intensity of the suffering caused by war.

Question 3

“All flesh is grass”

Answer 3

Biblical imagery and a metaphor

• points out the scale of bloodshed and creates a gruesome image in the readers head
• also it’s a line from the Bible that means human life is temporary

Question 4

“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”

Answer 4

Imagery/ metaphor

• ## hints to the photographers efforts to make sense of and order something so horrific

Question 5

“The reader’s eyeballs prick / with tears, between the bath and pre-lunch beers”

Answer 5

• shows the comfort of those at home who aren’t directly affected by war
• image contrasts to the images of pain that run throughout the poem.