Language

• • Fricative alliteration
  • Juxtaposition of "reassurance" to " flexible" as not everything in a photo is what it is

  " The reassurance of the frame is flexible "
• • "sun-gilded" connotes youth, radiance and wholesomeness
  • Sense of youth when "rolling....on the grass" but shifts dramatically when it says "champagne giggles" putting a more mature reveal to the reader (JUXTAPOSITION)


  " sun-gilded girls rolling, silk crumpled, on the grass in champagne giggles"
• • "firmness" used in a way to connote a sense of authenticity
  • The indented line "this is how things are" is forced, supporting how people can control the narrative

  " firmness of the edges can convince you,

  this is how things are"
• • Stating it in a nonchalant way like it is a natural occurence

  "the first bomb of the morning"
• • Juxtaposition to "hip thrust out under a baby's weight" showing the reality of what war is really like
  • "Burden" used as an implied metaphor for a baby with darker connotations

  "she dropped her burden"
• • Plural pronoun "their" suggests that the caption was made by an editor or the Government to get you to see " how things are " in conflict


  " Their caption read

  'Even in hell the human spirit triumphs..."
• • "arbitrary" meaning meaningless, stating how no picture could get us to truly comprehend conflict
  • " blood stain" having a deeper meaning of how the cycle of senseless bloodshed ensues, we only see blood stains on a wall and not the psychological undercurrents of war 


  " arbitrary as a blood stain on a wall "