War Photographer Flashcards
1
Q
Quotes p.1.
A
“darkroom”
“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“only light is red and softly glows”
“as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass”
“All flesh is grass”
“He has a job to do.”
“hands” which “did not tremble then though seem to now”
“fields which don’t explode beneath the feet”
“running children in a nightmare heat”
2
Q
Quotes p.2.
A
“stranger’s features faintly start to twist”
“half-formed ghost”
“He remembers the cries of this man’s wife”
“the blood stained into foreign dust”
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”
“editor will pick out five or six”
“reader’s eyeballs prick with tears”
“they do not care.”
3
Q
STRUCTURE
A
- Follows actions and thoughts of photographer in darkroom
- Distinct change at start of third stanza; photographer remembers specific death
- Focus changes in final stanza to the way the photographers work is received
4
Q
FORM
A
- Four stanzas if equal length and a regular rhyme scheme
- “set out in ordered rows” like the photographers spools; echoes care he takes over his work
- Enjambment reflects gradual revealing of photo as it develops
