Carol Ann Duffy Anthology

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later on 'darkroomcan also link back as metaphor to a sacred place

War Photographer -
alliteration -> emphasises the metaphor for photographer's depression
photographer having
f ilm
as
lots of a ll the
result of suffering he has witnessed again a loneliness feeling which supports the feeling depression
of

In hisIdark room he is finally alone


rous of ↳
coils photo
spool=
film photo's just graves set out in uniform fashion, like war are
graphing - ~

containing
of
w ar victims
pictures
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
so
used literal darkroom,
light links back to the in a

capturedThe only light is red and softly glows,


spool metaphor
is for light - > red
metaphor dark room is for
however it can also be seen where the
a
and pain
grief
photographer light light
church and the red is akin to tabernacle in a church

as though this were a church and he


the
by a

photographer life, during transient nature of and in particular c onflict


times of

a priest preparing to intone a Mass. meraphorturning grass


T
performs his role homeland, but
returing decomposed to bodies not
foreign to on
of a priest and seems fields, into and mere
British gov and IRA, Lebanese civial war, remaining
cambodian civil war
photography
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. being
like his meraphor retiring -> to bodies not home, but instead
sacred decomposed foreign turing grass fields and into
duty
is a on

during times ofwa r (well-known names and sufficient to represent the horrific events that have taken
place there

-> solutions of
crisis and in hope to
change the Western
ideas and
making people
He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays want to act on this situation

beneath his hands, which did not tremble then photography,


-> in the balllefield his hands need to be steady
for but once he is home his hands tremble
because of fear and what he has
axiety of just witnessed
though seem to now. Rural England. Home again England -> is a safeplace for him compared to warzones

to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,


safeplace ↳ a like home

to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet rhyme explosive feet
-> focus
under
to the fact that landmines are notjust
s oldiers, but also children
of

of running children in a nightmare heat. expressing feeling empathy ->

up in the
a of towards the children
contrast between the British
caught war and creates a
have to
the photograph are developing people who complain about the weather, while the children in war
literally 4 bear with so much more than them
but at the same time experience all the

feelings
while
taking
he had
so Something is happening. A stranger’s features
faintly start to twist before his eyes, ghost'
picture all over
represents all the people that died as a result of fighting and
again by it
suggest with half-formed that some soldiers were
very young and not

developing -

a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries


fully-formed even in emotional and intellectual maturity

personification

of this man’s wife, how he sought approval


without words to do what someone must giving patriotic feeling -> a that someone must step up for
the for the country
country light and also

and how the blood stained into foreign dust. rhyme brings greater -> focus to reader

hardship and
photograph being published of
-imagery
supfering endured by those in war and -
'hundred' is
A hundred agonies in black and white I very photographshitting
but
few will ever be seen, despite the
still reveal the great suffering
fact that

hyperbolic, they are hard and

yet realityfrom which his editor will pick out five or six experienced by many.
close to

for Sunday’s supplement. The reader’s eyeballs prick quickly


and
prick suggest ->
a
feeling that is fleeting
and it is linked to how the
forgotten
symbolism (

with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.


reader will reach after the photographs
redolent viewing
Sunday is

church,
of Duffy
but

suggest
superficial, paying
From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where
this to be

he earns his living and they do not care.


to the
ip service
idea ofhelping
your fellow man in

the name of religion ↳ refers to the readers h is


of photographs and itseems thathe
that his readers
cares about the situation, but
sadly he thinks
don'tlike he also suggested by saying 'the reader's eyeballs prick'

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