WAR PHOTOGRAPHER - by Carol Ann Duffy

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Year 10 English (Power & Conflict) Mapa Mental sobre WAR PHOTOGRAPHER - by Carol Ann Duffy, criado por Ihsan Choudhury em 23-04-2018.
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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER - by Carol Ann Duffy
  1. CONTEXT - The imagery in line 12 seems to reinforce a famous photo by another war photographer Nick Ut. He took a photo of a nine-year old during the Vietnam War. She was running naked towards the camera in extreme pain - her village was hit by a napalm bomb.
    1. FORM
      1. The poem has 4 stanzas of equal length and a regular rhyme scheme.
        1. It is "set out in ordered rows" like the photographer's spools, echoing the care that the photographer takes over his work.
        2. The use of enjambment reflects the gradual revealing of the photo as it develops.
        3. STRUCTURE
          1. The poem follows the actions and thoughts of the photographer in his darkroom.
            1. There's a distinct change at the start of the third stanza, when the photographer remembers a specific death.
              1. In the final stanza, the focus shifts to the way the photographer's work is percieved.
              2. LANGUAGE
                1. Religious Imagery
                  1. The references to religion make it sound almost as if the photographer is a priest conducting a funeral when he's developing the photos - there's a sense of ceremony to his actions.
                    1. "All flesh is grass"
                      1. "a priest preparing to intone a Mass"
                    2. Contrasts
                      1. The poem presents "Rural England" as a contrast to the war zones the photographer visits.
                        1. "From the aeroplane"
                        2. The grieving widow is compared with people in England whose eyes only "prick / with tears" at the pain.
                          1. "prick/ with tears"
                          2. Ironically, the photographer is detached in the war zones but deeply affected at home.
                            1. "his hands, which did not tremble then"
                          3. Emotive Language
                            1. The poem is full of powerful, emotive imagery which reflect the horrors of war seen by the photographer and captured in her photos.
                              1. "A hundred agonies in black and white"
                                1. "blood stained into foreign dust"
                                2. Like the photographer, Duffy tries to represent the horror of conflict in her work in order to make the reader think about the subject
                                  1. "of running children in a nightmare heat"

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