War Photographer Flashcards
Quote 1: lonely bastard
“He is finally alone” - finds solace in being alone, surrounded by despair
Quote 2: spools and graves
“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”- “rows” like graves, spools of camera film
Quote 3: red
“The only light is red” - red room
Quote 4:
“This were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass” - mass of death , intone = chant
Quote 5:
“All flesh is grass” - biblical allusions being returned to the ground
Quote 6:
“He has a job to do” - cog
Quote 7:
“His hands, which did not tremble then” - mechanised
Quote 8:
“Rural England” - reflects how foreign his own home life is and how he’s shot there
Quote 9:
“Fields which don’t explode beneath the feet” - mines, how comfortable he has become in war
Quote 10:
“Running children in a nightmare heat” - naypalm, bioweapon
Quote 11:do the twist with yo face stranger
“A strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes” - “twisting” - in death
Quote 12;
“Half- formed ghost” - haunted
Quote 13: sought apuval
“Sought approval” - morality
Quote 14:
“Blood stained into foreign dust” constant , in great magnitude
Quote 15:
“A hundred agonies in black and white” - not lives, black and white
