War Photogtapher

Question 1

Who wrote war photographer

Answer 1

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 2

War photographer - summary

Answer 2

A war photographer is developing photos in a darkroom
The images slowly appear recreating the horrors he lived through
He is clearly traumatized by what he has seen and questions our desensitized attitude to war

Question 3

War photographer - context

Answer 3

An image is made from film laid out into pools of developing fluid
It is an incredibly slow process

Question 4

War photographer - carol Ann Duffy

Answer 4

Wrote the poem as she was inspired by her war photographer friend

Intrigued by the fact they had to record horrible events but couldnt help in them

Question 5

War photographer - quotes

Answer 5

‘Spools of suffering’ → prolonged sense of suffering
‘set put in ordered rows’ → militaristic language - links to grave yard / soldiers standing to attention

‘All flesh is grass’ - pain + suffering → common

‘Ordinary pain’ → numbed to ordinary issues - standard pain is nothing compared to what soldiers go through (oxymoron - rationalising the painful memories’

‘Hundred agonies in black and white’ → victims of war, suffering. Inescapable and clear (cant escape pain)

Question 6

War photographer - structure

Answer 6

Regular rhyme scheme (abbcdd) contrasts the chaotic images in the poem.

Further links to soldiers at war

Question 7

War photographer - Tones

Answer 7

Reflection
Horror
Disgust

Question 8

Why does the war photographer do their job

Answer 8

To capture and bring to light the horrific events of war

Other ‘ordinary pain’ cannot compare to that of a soilders