War photographer - NTL Flashcards
What does the line ‘In his darkroom, he ..
is finally alone.’ suggest about the photographer’s experience?
It highlights the solitude he experiences while processing traumatic images.
What does the phrase ‘A hundred agonies
in black and white’ imply about war photography?
Each photograph conveys profound suffering and pain in a detached, monochromatic format.
What emotional response does ‘The reader’s eyeballs
prick with tears’ indicate?
It indicates a fleeting and often superficial sympathy from viewers.
What does the statement ‘They do not
care’ reveal about people’s reaction to war images?
It reflects the indifference of people to the suffering depicted in the photographs.
could reflect the wider world, the reader of poem, governments.
What atmosphere is suggested by the imagery ‘The only light
is red and softly glows’?
It suggests a dark, somber atmosphere, with red symbolizing danger and bloodshed.
When and who wrote this?
Carol Ann Duffy - 1985
‘Bloody stained..
into foreign dust.’
- normally dismissed by england, you don’t realise the suffering in other countries
when was carol ann duffy born?
- Was friends with war photographers.
what is the theme?
impossibility of truly showing horror on picture. or truth of war.
structure?
4 stanzas
6 lines per stanza
abbccdd rhyme scheme
could reflect war photographers job who wants to pose structure on chaos of war, make it palatable for people to temporarily look at and then forget, but the chaos of war can never be organised.
what is the juxtaposition in the theme and structure?
chaos of war and formated organised structure.
could reflect what we see of war , and the true chaos of it.
or how despite the war photographers efforts, nothing ever changes - reflected by the organised structure.
why is rural england between two full stops?
caesura. separates completely from description of war zones
what they see vs reality, will be temporarily moved but don’t see the true horror, and will carry on with their lives.
what does the half rhyme of beers and tears in the quote ‘ prick with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers’ reflect ?
how quickly people forget about other horrors.
will simply return to their life and forget.
what does the cyclical structure of going to and from a war zone reflect?
could reflect fate- there’s no escaping it.
and futility of his job - wants to make an impact but people will always see it and then carry on with their structured lives.
what does the contrast between ‘darkroom and red light’ (sinister) and religious of ‘church’ and ‘mass’ reflect?
can show contradiction - two things are opposed and the need to make order of chaos.
‘ spools of
suffering set out in ordered rows’
tried to be made pretty, but war is. nothing but.
‘all flesh..
is grass’
biblical reference as said in biblical - isaiah
- reflects fragility of life.
‘belfast.. beirut.
phnom penh’
plosives - break peace of what went before.
quick ‘gun fire’
caesura - full stops break the line - forcing us to think - criticizes how people don’t stop and think about he suffering.
‘ a half
formed ghost’
- ambiguous phrase
-as picture is developing, is starting to fade into existence.
- person is mutiliated or close to death, half a memory ( won’t be remmebered)
