War photographer

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Form

  • 4 stanzas of 6 lines

  • Rhyme scheme

  • Is ABABCD

  • Trying to impose order on chaos



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Point of view

3rd person

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Themes

emotional detachment of the photographer ‘he has a job to do’

reader’s lack of engagement with the images they see

Displacement (strange/foreign dust/ aeroplane)

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Emotional range

  • Explores the need for detachment: ‘he stares impassively at where/he earns his living

  • Trembling hands at stanza 2 hint at the emotional cost the photographer has to face

  • Readers are indifferent, ‘they do not care’


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Imagery

  • ‘ordered rows’ like graves

  • Religious imagery in stanza 1- sense of solemnity and ritual, like the photographer is sanctifying these images of death


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Sensory imagery

colour dark/red of the room

image of the ‘half-formed ghost’ come into view

Remebers cries of the wife (stanza 3)

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Juxtaposition

The chaos and destruction of war-torn countries juxtaposed with the comfortable leisurely routines of ‘Rural England’

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Caesura

makes us pause on the place names in stanza 1

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Short sentences

  • ‘He has a job to do’. short simple sentence attempts to simplify the complexity and emotional burden of the task

  • ‘Something is happening’ Literally the image is beginning to appear; metaphorically the memories are starting to resurface.