War Photographer
The poem is called war photographer by carol Ann Duffy. The poem is about a photographer developing his photos in a darkroom after returning from a war zone. Carol Duffy's purpose to this poem is to make us think about the things that we think aren't important because they don't affect us for example the war zone which the writer has just returned from. She also wants us to think about what people like the photographer go through to let the people safe at home know what's happening in the world. The poem has a rhyme structure in each stanza, which goes A-B-B-C-D-D.In stanza one the writer is in his darkroom and is setting out his spools of film to be developed-"In his darkroom he is finally alone with his spools of suffering set out in ordered rows". The use of the word "finally" suggests that he's been through a lot recently and he is somewhat glad to be alone now. Duffy gives us a contrast between the first and second lines of the poem. Duffy begins by telling saying the photographer is "finally alone" but then in the same sentence you are told that he has his "spools of suffering" which would have the images of many people either dead or in pain which you could say would be a form
In stanza two the writer is now in the process of developing the photos and his hands are trembling as he works. By using the word "ordered" when referring to the way the spools are set out the poet creates a contrast with the spools and the rows as the all the spools have images of chaos and war which contrasts with the neat order of the way they are set out. I think she may have done this to relay to the readers the fact that he is now dead and to emphisise the fact that the picture is blurred because ghosts aren't completely visible they to are supposed to be blurred. The last line of the stanza names places that are famous for chaos and suffering which tie in with the rest of the poem. The final stanza is a thought provoking one. Its about how the readers only show a sort of instantaneous moment of caring about what they are reading but that feeling is then driven from them by silly meaningless things such as having their bath or the lunch beer. The sentence "the readers eyes prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers" is the start of the Duffy's conclusion. In the last sentence of the stanza there is another reference like the one in stanza one, which suggests there are dead bodies all over the land-"blood stained in foreign dust". It really makes the reader think about world events a bit more and about what we don't get to see or hear about things such as wars. In the first stanza the poet compares the photographer to a priest waiting to "intone a mass". The first sentence of this stanza explains just how little we get to see of images from wars, etc. The term "rural England" brings the reader back to what could be considered as a normal way of existence, which is peaceful and beautiful and the complete opposite of the horrific war zones the photographer has just endured. The first part of the final sentence of the poem is about the photographer going back to a war zone. A strangers features start to twist before his eyes a half-formed ghost".
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