War photographer

Question 1

Spools of suffering

Answer 1

Sibilance- emphasises the plural-spools- the scale of the suffering, disturbing images

Question 2

As though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intome a Mass

Answer 2

similie- like a priest- his images communicate a moral/spiritual message to his audience or atleast this is the intention

Question 3

He has a job to do.

Answer 3

Caesura, matter of fact tone, it’s not just a job it has a psychological impact

Question 3

A strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes a half-formed ghost

Answer 3

Metaphor- negative image is created: white like a ghost, on a deeper level the images of suffering he’s seen are haunting him, as a photographer his images resurrect the dead (metaphorically)

Question 3

Rural England.

Answer 3

Caesura, emphasises juxtaposition between the quiet peaceful environment of home and the horrific war environment- photographer finds this disorienting

Question 4

Feet, heat

Answer 4

Rhyming couplet- emphasise the chaos - rhyme like a nightmarish version of a children’s nursery rhyme

Question 4

Stained

Answer 4

Verb- how much blood there is due to the war- deeper level he has been stained psychologically

Question 4

Five or six for Sundays supplement

Answer 4

Use of number + sibilance- contrast in use of images of suffering from 100 to 5-6, the public only have a limited view of the war from carefully edited images, they don’t see the scale of the conflict, not the main newspaper implies that the suffering of people is less important than the news in the main news

Question 5

He stares ‘impassively’

Answer 5

Adverb- implies he has to emotionally detach himself to function at his job

Question 5

From aeroplane

Answer 5

Setting- leaves one war zone to another-flying from one to another- war is constant and it doesn’t stop- war is never ending and there is always war somewhere in the world- Duffy emphasises the pity of this in her poem