War photographer

Question 1

Form and Type of Poem - war photographer

Answer 1

1. dramatic monologue
2. elegaic tone
3. six regular quatrains

Question 2

Rhyme scheme - war photographer

Answer 2

1. tight ABBC rhyme scheme throughout
2. constrained rhyme reflect how he attempts to impose emotional, ethical order on moral disarray of war
3. mirrors the photographer’s meticulous profession - control amidst remembered chaos

Question 3

Meter - war photographer

Answer 3

1. mostly iambic pentameter
2. echoes the detachment and professionalism photographer must adopt in face of extreme suffering

Question 4

Enjambment vs Caesura - war photographer

Answer 4

1. Enjambment - flow of thought - caesura - reflection - mental dissonance

Question 5

Volta - war photographer

Answer 5

1. volta - start of third stanza - shift from internal reflection in darkroom - vivid recollection of specific horrors witnessed
2. memories develop as sharply as the photographs

Question 6

Cyclic Structure

Answer 6

1. ends where it begins: with the photographer alone, returning to or departing from a conflict
2. reinforces futility - emotional detachment of photographer’s work - apathy of the wider public