War Photographer

Question 1

With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Answer 1

• Iambic pentameter
• Alexandrine shows pent up emotion is overflowing
• emotive word ‘suffering’ stresses highlighting how memories are distressing and can only maintain his composure by controlling and organising his film
• alliteration lengthens the sentence and demonstrates how memories are everlasting

Question 2

Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh

Answer 2

• caesura breaks up the sentence makes the places stand out. Quickens the pace emphasising his feelings of anxiety and distress when returning to these memories when he develops the film.
• plosive sounds mimics sound of gunfire and bombs
• photographer is involuntarily flashing back to war and unable to focus on his work

Question 3

All flesh is grass

Answer 3

• attempts to comfort himself
• rationalising the deaths he has witnessed and highlights the cyclical nature of of life our flesh returns to the earth when we die
• biblical reference
• trying to bury his memories of war

Question 4

He has a job to do

Answer 4

• short sharp blunt sentence
• uses caesura explore how he is preparing to detach himself from his emotions by reminding himself of his role
• immersed in images and cannot separate his emotions

Question 5

His editor will pick out five or six

Answer 5

• juxtaposition of detached language
• dehuminises the suffering by focusing on profits. Media exploits the suffering of others

Question 6

A hundred agonies

Answer 6

• emotive language
• connotations of pain, death and universal horrors
• descriptor ‘hundred’ highlighting the number of victims suffering
• juxtaposition

Question 7

The readers eyeballs prick with tears between baths and prelunch beers

Answer 7

• internal perfect rhyme emphasised how to readers memorises are a mild inconvenience that may only distract them for a short period of time before returning to their privileged daily lives. Reader is not really affected and their pity is disingenuous

Question 8

Points memories

Answer 8

• presents memories to be permenant and painful
• the traumatic effect of memories are repressed by the speaker… however for the general population
• presents how memories can cause the speaker to feel