Zusammenfassung der Ressource
War Photographer
- Carol Ann Duffy
- 'Belfast. Bairut. Phnom Penh.' -
War zones, places he's visited
- Sestets
- 'Spools of suffering set
out' - Sibilance, so much
suffering, unnatural order
- 'Ordinary pain which simple
weather can dispel' - Not
real pain, not like what he's
seen, small pain goes
- 'As though this were a church and he
a priest' - Simile, funeral, ceremony, ritual
- 'All flesh is grass' -
Return to ground, Bible
- 'Alone' - Contrast to
war zones, feels alone
- 'Red and softly glows' -
Metaphor, blood, contrast
- Regular - Order
on photographs
- ABBCDD rhyme - Same
everyday, C represents
mental break in routine
- 'Tremble' - Verb, trauma
- 'Explode beneath the feet
of running children' -
Violent imagery, shocking
- Based on friendship
with war photographer
- Reference to Napalm
and Vietnam
- 'Nightmare heat'
- Metaphor
- 'He remembers the cries' -
PTSD, haunted by memories,
photo comes alive
- 'Stained' - Verb, lasts forever,
stained into memory, mind
- 'Must' - Modal verb, has to do it
- 'Hundred agonies in black and
white' - Metaphor
- 'Pick out' - Lack of
care, emotion, chosing
- 'Prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers'
Internal rhyme, upset for a second, people move on, forget,
contrast to photographer
- 'Stares impassively' - Verb,
adjective, emotionless,
numb, desensitized
- 'He earns his living and they
do not care' - For money,
people at war zones don't are,
people at home don't care