War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy Flashcards
His hands, which did not _______ then though ____ to now
-His hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now
PTSD - hands had to be still when taking photos otherwise the pictures would be blurred. When he gets home into his dark room he can finally reflect on his experience and his hands shake with fear and anxiety.
-WLA: tremble
The reader’s eyeballs _____ with tears between ____ and __-____ beers.
-The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between bath and pre-lunch beers.
People may be slightly upset by the pictures, but they do nothing to end the wars, and simply carry on their comfortable Sunday rituals regardless.
-WLA: ‘prick’, rhyming of ‘beers’ and ‘tears’.
_____ stained into ______ ____
-Blood stained into foreign dust
The blood penetrates the ‘foreign dust’. The blood will dry and the dust blow away. However, the memories of the blood will penetrate the mind of the photographer. What he sees and experiences will ‘stain’ him; be with him till the end of his life.
-WLA: ‘stained’
A _______ agonies in _____ and _____.
-A hundred agonies in black and white.
These photographs contain images of hardship and suffering endured by those affected by war, so that it is almost impossible to select a few for publication.
-WLA: ‘a hundred’ is hyperbolic, a round number yet close to reality
In his ________ he is finally ____.
- In his darkroom he is finally alone
Tone of relief to finally be home, and have left the chaos to reach silence. ANASTROPHE is starting with the adverbial phrase “In his darkroom” in order to emphasise it, instead of starting with the main clause.
- WLA: ‘darkroom’
The three semantic fields present in the poem:
Photography - ‘spools’ , ‘darkroom’ , ‘solution’
War - ‘aeroplane’ , ‘blood’ , ‘explode’
Religion - ‘Mass’ , ‘church’ , ‘dust’
