📸 war photographer quotes

Question 1

• war photographer
• religious simile
• job of a priest and job of a war photographer, both exposed to death and suffering

Answer 1

‘as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass’

Question 2

• war photographer
• conflicts in the places
• plosives of ‘p’ and ‘b’ quick fire pace that sounds like gunfire -> violence in the war
• biblical allusion to Isiah: 40. fragility of life. insignificance of life during times of conflict, one death can mean very little

Answer 2

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

Question 3

• war photographer
• photograph developing
• dying agonies
• not fully formed = died
• half memory -> haunting him

Answer 3

‘A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes / a half-formed ghost’

Question 4

• war photographer
• memories and feelings associated with war will forever by imprinted

Answer 4

‘blood stained into foreign dust’

Question 5

• war photographer
• readers see the photos, tear up a bit, and then forget
• half rhyme quickens the pace, just like the speed at which people forget

Answer 5

‘prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’