Zusammenfassung der Ressource
War photographer
- Form and
structure
- regular rhyme scheme
- I think Duffy
writes the poem
like this to show
her respect and
that she does
care and she does
this by taking the
time to get things
right.
- Also it is a bit of a contrast
because it is a poem about
the destruction of war and
the photos he takes but she
wrights the poem neat and
with no errors even though
war is messy and
unpredictable.
- stanzas
are equal
lengths
- Its "in ordered
rows" like the
war
photographers
work
- The first line of stanza 3 it says
"something is happening." This is
a turning point in the poem
(volta)
- The focus changes to the personal cost
of war (specific deaths)
- Contrasts
- "his hands, which did not
tremble then"
- Irony - He is calm when it
comes to war and horrors of
war but is frightened when he
comes home.
- Emotive language
- Duffy tries to
represent the
true horror of
conflict to make
the reader think
about the
subject.
- "A hundred agonies in black
and white"
- Emotive metaphor to describe the
photos. Having the pictures printed
seems to confirm the the suffering
- Religious Imagery
- The reference to
religion almost
makes it seem like
the photographer
is the priest and he
is conducting a
funeral when he
develops the
photos.
- "as though this were a
church, and he a priest
preparing ... mass"
- Anger
- The poem ends with a
sens of anger at the
people who "do not
care" about the
suffering of others.