War Photographer Flashcards
(19 cards)
Dark Room
Where you develop photos
Dark also has connotations of fear or sleep
Finally
Word Choice
Suggests he has been waiting to be alone for a long time
Spools of Suffering
Sibilance
Spools are reels of photos inside cameras
This emphasises that these pictures are all of suffering
Ordered rows
Word choice
connotations of war graves or soldiers in formation
The ‘order’ contradicts the chaos in the images
Red
Word Choice
Connotations of blood
Contrast to the peaceful setting
white light cant be used
as though this was a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass
Simile
Priests conduct mass with candle light so the scenes are similar
It also suggests he is almost worshipping the photograph
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.
Alliteration/list/minor sentence
Emphasis that he had seen many horrors
There have been lots of wars. His photos have not stopped them
All flesh is grass
Metaphor
They are all buried back to nature
life is fragile
which do not tremble then though seem to now
contrast
You would think his hands
would be trembling when he is experiencing the wars
Its actually worse now that he can reflect on it
solutions slop
Sibilance
The solutions are being used to develop photos
It creates a hissing sound
makes it easier to imagine the scene
Rural England
Short sentence/word choice
Rural highlights the contrast between the busy chaos of war and the peace of the English countryside
To fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of children in a nightmare heat
Rhyming Couplet
by using running children as the example she highlights the injustice of war as children have no control over their surroundings
She has taken an image of children running on a field but twisted it to a war perspective
Something is happening
Short sentence
Acts as a turning point in the poem
strangers features
Sibilance
the photo has not yet developed se he doesn’t recognise the man
half formed ghost
Metaphor
the picture had not yet came into focus but also his memory is slowly forming
of this mans wife and how he sought approval without words to do what someone must
word choice
He tried to ask with his eyes if he could take the photo
he needed to take it (must) so that people would know and stop the atrocities
a hundred agonies
word choice
the word hundred emphasises that there are so many photos of agonies
pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement
Sibilance
Emphasis that the editor will not care about the hundreds of agonies
with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers
Rhyme
Emphasises that for the reader its just a moment in time then they get on with their normal lives
