war photographer- carol ann duffy

• "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" -methodical/meticulous -trying to make sense of chaos
• "a priest preparing to intone a Mass" - devotion/ calling to profession -transience of human life -biblical langauge
• "he has a job to do" -sense of duty/determination
• "which did not tremble then though seem to now" -realisation/acceptance
• "home again to ordinary pain" -contrast ordinary/normal struggles to extra-ordinary pain of war
• "back to fields which dont explode beneath the feet of running children" -highlight gravity of situation -destruction of innocence -despicable crimes
• "a half-formed ghost" -haunted
• "blood stained into foreign dust" -adds distance between photographer and crimes -memory stained onto him
• "readers eyes prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers" -fleeting/momentary empathy /highlight how desensetised we are to heinous crimes
• themes: -war -guilt
• language: -pathos -imagery
• form and structure: -the structure of stanzas contrast with distance necessary for photographer
• tone: -criticising -provokative (consider our responses when confronted by war =usually indifference)
• context: -Nick ut Vietnam photo of children running from massive fires -critical of modern warfare (unecessary)