War photographer Flashcards

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In his dark room he is finally alone

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The war photographer needs peace from the real world

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with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

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He tried to control the chaos he had experienced

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

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It is like a religious ritual for him, where he can be calm and in control

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All flesh is grass

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This is a quote from the Bible which means that everything dies, just like people do in the war zones he goes to

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‘He had a job to do’ and ‘To do what someone must’

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The war photographer believes that there is a purpose to what he does

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his hand which did not tremble then though seem to now

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He had a kind of delayed shocm

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running children in a nightmare heat

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This is the napalm attack which hurt children who were terribly burnt by it

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Something is happening

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The short sentence is a fact, the process is like a miracle

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A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes

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The photo is developing and showing the hurt and pain of the image

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The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers

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The internal rhyme emphasises how easily the public forget about the images that they have seen and get on with their comfortable lives

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he stares impassively

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He is beginning to not feel emotion towards his homeland

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at where he earns his living and they do not care

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This is a cold fact to end the poem. It id the harsh truth and the photographer doesn’t know how to make them care

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