War Photographer

• A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half formed ghost.
• In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
• A priest preparing to intone a mass ... all flesh is grass
• The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the baths and pre-lunch beers
• From the aeroplane he starts impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care
• In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

  Trochaic metre swapped with iambic metre unsettles reader

  'Finally alone'- want to be alone, internal conflict

  Sibilance- sinister

  Allusion to death- earns a living through death of others
• A priest preparing to intone a mass... All flesh is grass

  Half rhyme + metre switch- unsettles reader

  Plosive sound- mirrors death

  Metaphor suggests God does not exist, He would not allow such suffering

  Biblical allusion- we were born to die? human life too disposable
• A stranger's features start to faintly twist before his eyes, a half formed ghost

  Semantic field of death- person in photo is dead

  Focus on those outside of war who are effected- hallucination? guilt?
• The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the baths and the pre-lunch beers

  Small verb- insignificant, lack of care

  Internal rhyme- ironic happy tone

  Wash out emotions with alcohol- ignore suffering
• From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns a living and they do not care

  Without feeling- destroyed by job

  Desperation to make people care beginning to die

  He is living and they are dying