War photographer Flashcards
In his dark room he is finally alone
The war photographer needs peace from the real world
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
He tried to control the chaos he had experienced
as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass
It is like a religious ritual for him, where he can be calm and in control
All flesh is grass
This is a quote from the Bible which means that everything dies, just like people do in the war zones he goes to
‘He had a job to do’ and ‘To do what someone must’
The war photographer believes that there is a purpose to what he does
his hand which did not tremble then though seem to now
He had a kind of delayed shocm
running children in a nightmare heat
This is the napalm attack which hurt children who were terribly burnt by it
Something is happening
The short sentence is a fact, the process is like a miracle
A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes
The photo is developing and showing the hurt and pain of the image
The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers
The internal rhyme emphasises how easily the public forget about the images that they have seen and get on with their comfortable lives
he stares impassively
He is beginning to not feel emotion towards his homeland
at where he earns his living and they do not care
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
