poetry - war photographer Flashcards

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“spools of suffering”

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the metaphor links the content of the photographic images in the spools to the subjects of the photographs to highlight the awareness of the on-going, cynical misery endured by the subjects

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“spools … ordered rows”

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the image compared the meticulous arrangement of the spools to the graves in a (war) cemetery to highlight the scale of deaths witness and the violent nature of the deaths

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“dark room” “church”

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image of the dark room with its red light as a church compares the interior lighting within the darkroom to that of a church to highlight the gloomy, funereal atmosphere of the darkroom

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“red”

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word choice of red suggests the danger of the war zone or blood which represents the horror of the war zone

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“a priest… intone a Mass”

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the image of the photographer as a priest suggests a similarity between the role of the photographer and the priest in terms of the seriousness of the processes they are involved in/ the importance of their roles in spreading the word

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“all flesh is grass”

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the image compares human life to short lived “grass” to highlight the transient nature of human life

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“Rural England”

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word choice suggests the idealised view of england as predominantly countryside which is leafy, peaceful, natural and wholesome

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“ordinary pain”

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the juxtaposition suggests how trivial and unimportant the problems faced in britain are compared to those in war zones

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“simple weather” and “dispel”

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the word choice suggests how shallow / easily addresses the problems faced in britain are

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“explode”

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word choice suggests the unpredictability and danger of life in the war zone

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“nightmare heat”

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word choice suggests extreme climactic conditions endured with suggestion of oppressive or threatening atmosphere

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“rural England” “fields” “running children”

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extended contrast drawn between england’s stereotypical features and how it is contrasted with reality of life in the warzone - “exploded” and “nightmare heat”

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“hand, which did not tremble then”

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word choice emphasises contrast between his ability to cope with the job at the time and the impact on him now as he reflects on it

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“twist”

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word choice suggests the subject’s body distorted by pain/injury; writhing in agony

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“half-formed ghost”

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word choice suggests memories of death and being haunted by the memories

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“cries”

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suggests the anguish of the man’s wife

17
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“cries/ of this man’s wife”

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the enjambement suggests emotional turmoil, uncontained by ordinary line structure

18
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“blood stained”

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word choice suggests the scale of the violence remembered / the indelible nature of the memory

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” blood stained” and “cries”

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the use of sense words suggests the vivacity of the memory

20
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“foreign dust”

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the word choice suggests abandoned and forgotten

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“A hundred agonies”

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word choice suggests the emotional power / quantity of images that the public respond to in a limited way

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“black and white”

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word choice suggests the veracity of the imaged that the public respond to in a limited way

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“hundred” “five or six”

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the contrast in numbers illustrates the public’s limited capacity for the images of this horrific nature

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“prick with tears”

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word choice suggests the public’s limited emotional response to the images

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“between the bath and prelunch beers”

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juxtaposition and alliteration of these suggest the brief impact of the suffering shown in the images

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“they do not care”

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the positioning/tone of this reinforces the sense of the British public’s indifference to the suffering