Flashcards in War Photographer Deck (13):
1
“Darkroom” / “Red”
Connotations of the colours... violence and loneliness
2
“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
-‘Ordered rows’ 1.reflects structure 2.suggestion of graves
-Sibilance
-The ‘spools’ themselves can’t suffer but what is shown on them can bring suffering
3
“All flesh is grass”
-Rosetti & Bible reference
-Futility of life
4
“beneath his hands, which did not tremble then/though seem to now”
-‘Tremble’ due to emotion felt… not replicated by society
5
“A strangers features/faintly start to twist”
-Ambiguous
Literal: developing the photo
Figurative: person in pain
6
“A half-formed ghost”
-Metaphor
Image of death
Image on photo
7
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”
1 Photo
2 good/bad
3 truth/lies
8
“The readers eyeballs prick/with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”
-Rhyme quickens pace reflecting speed that people forget (futile)
-Juxtaposes ‘tears’ with comfortable images of ‘bath’ and ‘pre lunch beers’
-Anger... tears are meaningless
9
“He earns his living and they do not care”
-Final line
-Putting his life at risk and in reality people don’t care
-‘They’... the public/media/us
10
Written by...
Carol Ann Duffy
-poem is about the ‘difficult decisions’
11
MAIN THEMES
-Photographers MORALITY
-Emotion
-Clear/blunt like a photo
12
Structure?
-Strict Structure
4 stanzas of 6 lines following abbcdd
(symbolises photographers discipline and the ordered structure of war)
-Cyclical... reflecting the never ending emotions of war
13