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    The poem explores the experiences of a war photographer who documents the horrors of war. In 3 sentences: The photographer is haunted by the suffering he witnesses and documents in the warzones, trying to find meaning in capturing images of "ordered rows" of human tragedy. Though he tries to distance himself by seeing it as a "job to do," the painful memories are "bloodstained into [his] memory" and he remains psychologically tormented by what he has seen. The photos, which provide only a brief glimpse of the true "hundred agonies" of war for entertainment in the newspaper, fail to convey the true cost while the photographer is left numbly reliving it all.

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    The poem explores the experiences of a war photographer who documents the horrors of war. In 3 sentences: The photographer is haunted by the suffering he witnesses and documents in the warzones, trying to find meaning in capturing images of "ordered rows" of human tragedy. Though he tries to distance himself by seeing it as a "job to do," the painful memories are "bloodstained into [his] memory" and he remains psychologically tormented by what he has seen. The photos, which provide only a brief glimpse of the true "hundred agonies" of war for entertainment in the newspaper, fail to convey the true cost while the photographer is left numbly reliving it all.

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    The poem explores the experiences of a war photographer who documents the horrors of war. In 3 sentences: The photographer is haunted by the suffering he witnesses and documents in the warzones, trying to find meaning in capturing images of "ordered rows" of human tragedy. Though he tries to distance himself by seeing it as a "job to do," the painful memories are "bloodstained into [his] memory" and he remains psychologically tormented by what he has seen. The photos, which provide only a brief glimpse of the true "hundred agonies" of war for entertainment in the newspaper, fail to convey the true cost while the photographer is left numbly reliving it all.

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    War Photographer

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    The poem explores the experiences of a war photographer who documents the horrors of war. In 3 sentences: The photographer is haunted by the suffering he witnesses and documents in the warzones, trying to find meaning in capturing images of "ordered rows" of human tragedy. Though he tries to distance himself by seeing it as a "job to do," the painful memories are "bloodstained into [his] memory" and he remains psychologically tormented by what he has seen. The photos, which provide only a brief glimpse of the true "hundred agonies" of war for entertainment in the newspaper, fail to convey the true cost while the photographer is left numbly reliving it all.

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    War Photographer

    Comment on structure, rhyme scheme

    quatrain with six lines in it. ABBC DD rhyme scheme. the tightly controlled structure
    which contrasts the war which is not controlled. the poet uses the anapestic meter,
    iambic meter, and spondee in the poem.

    moral dilemma
    PTSD

    Stanza 1 -Techniques

    Connotations of dark in the darkroom - ominous

    ‘finally’ in finally alone - adverb - relief

    Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows - metaphor and sibilance - sinister,
    ‘ordered’ - regularity of the sibilance, ordered dead bodies

    ‘red’ - dangerous, blood, in catholic churches


    ‘softly’ - ironic

    Extended Simile of comparing the photographer to the priest - they both deal with
    death, sacred duty, intermediate between the world and warlike god and people

    The holophrastic phrases with caesuras - warzones, pauses th pace

    ‘All flesh is grass and all its beauty is like the flower of the field’ - Biblical allusion -
    Isiah - Chapter 40 Verse 6 - life is fragile, don't have the value of grass in these
    warzones.

    Stanza 2

    What kind of line is ‘He has a job to do.’ - a matter of fact, full stop - doesn't want to
    think too much

    Solutions slop - Why ‘slop’? - messy, sibilance

    Solutions - he thinks there might be a solution to the war


    Rural England - in between two full stops - adjective ‘Rural’ - the contrast between
    warzones and England

    ‘nightmare heat’ - mines and bombs

    Contrasted to the horror in war-torn places - idyllic life in England

    juxtaposition - life in england and warzone

    Stanza 3

    Dramatic opening - suspense

    Use of ‘twist’ - pain, horrific emotions

    Half-formed ghost - a metaphor - ambiguous, he took a picture of a dying man or the


    man partly lives in his photos

    ‘Sought approval’ - comment on the word choices - cares and respects the boundaries
    unlike other journalists

    ‘without words’ - awkward, he's not in his own country

    ‘to do what someone must’ - moral dilemma

    ‘Bloodstained into foreign dust’ - he can't help anyone and all he can do is take their
    pictures, stained - leaves a mark in your memory forever

    Enjambment - What is the effect - connects all the lines together as she wants us to
    visualize the horrors of war.

    caesura - she wants us to pause and think about the war life.

    Stanza 4

    Contrast ‘a hundred agonies’ or ‘five or six’ - his own agonies and the war life people
    are like a hundred while only five or six pictures not even on the front page are
    selected

    Sunday’s Supplement - alliteration, for entertainment

    Choice of ‘prick’ - pain that doesn't last


    The half-rhyme between ‘tears’ and ‘beers’ - quickens the pain felt by the ‘prick’

    Black and white - contrasts England and warzones

    Why dies he stare ‘impassively’ - because he feels numb after facing the horrors he
    has seen.

    definite statement - ‘they do not care’

    cyclic structure - the memories of war are playing repeats endlessly in his mind,
    nobody cares while he is stuck in this cycle, the war will go on and on.

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