English homework Flashcards
(5 cards)
Imagery - “In his darkroom he is finally alone.”
The imagery of the darkroom emphasizes how the photographer is suffering alone both emotionally and physically from the horrors of war.
Alliteration - “A hundred agonies in black-and-white.”
The alliteration illustrates the number of tragedies that were captured in the photos and the phrase “black-and-white” suggests how these images are dull and are devoid of emotional connection.
Metaphor - “spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”
This is negative and lets the reader know how wars are full of suffering and how the war photographer becomes densenzitised by everything he has seen. The “ordered rows” are a coping mechanism to attempt to impose some order on the images of the class of war.
Rhyming couplet - whole poem
The poem has 4 - 6 line stanzas which each end in a rhyming couplet and has an orderly poetic structure that contrasts with chaos of a subject matter (war).
Metaphor - “A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost.”
It’s because the war photographer has no idea who any of the people in his photos are and the negative of the image is white like a ghost as the images of suffering he’s seen are haunting him. Or it could be as a photographer, his images resurrect the dead.
