War Photographer Flashcards
(23 cards)
dark room
In his dark room he is finally alone
Spools
With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
Light
The only light is red and softly glows
Church
As though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass
Locations
Belfast.Beirut.Phnon Penh
Bible
All flesh is grass
He has a
job to do
slop
Solutions slop in trays
reflection
Which did not tremble then though seem to now
Rural
England
Ordinary pain
which simple weather can dispel
Fields which
do not explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat
Something
is happening
Ghost
A half-formed ghost
Sought
Approval without words to do what someone must
Blood
stained into foreign dust
A hundred agonies
in black and white
From which his editor
will pick five or six for Sundays Supplement
The readers
Eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers
He stares
Impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care
Themes
The effects of war, the indifference to society to human suffering in the worlds warzones
Contrasts
Dark room to the warzone, Rural England to warzone.
The photographers feelings in the warzone and his feelings back home.
Attitude of the photographer to his work and the attitude of his editor/readers if the paper
Rhyme scheme
a,b,b,c,d
