effects of conflict

• conflict effects those who don't fight - war photographer


  'they do not care' -

  'they' - ambiguous - public, wider world?

  'care' - verb - there is a way to express the effects of conflicts, but it is useless as people don't care
• conflict dehumanises people - war photographer


  'half-formed ghosts'

  'half formed' - ambiguous - lost half there soul at war, detrimental injury - pictures developing

  'ghosts' - death
• war photographer structure

  • Rhyme = ABBCDD + stanza (6 lines) - control
  • unchanging structure shows our lives - words shows the reality of war
  • control - war photographers job to make order out of chaos - we read about it and then proceed with our normal lives
  • juxtaposition - tightly organised contrasts the chaos of writing within (topic) - shows the contrast between what we see and what soldiers see
  • cyclical structure = begins with them coming back from trip ' In the dark room he is finally alone' - ends going out on another trip = shows how people read and then continue their everyday life
• war photographer context


  Carol Ann Duffy

  • 1st female poet Laurette
  • friends with famous war photographers - wanted to show the hardships of their day to day life
• conflict dehumanises - COTLB


  'while horses and hero's fall' - alliteration

  'horses' - noun, animal - shows how not only humans are effected but also the natural world

  'hero's' - glorifies the obedience of the soldiers, they blindly follow those in power

  'while' - conjunction - diminishes the hero's sacrifice

  'fall' - to die = verb
• conflict effects those who fight -COTLB

  • 'they rode back, but not the six hundred'

  they - soldiers - 'rode' - verb - 'back' - returned back to base

  'but' - conjunctive, volta in the sentence

  'not' - adverb - 'the' - determiner

  'six hundred' - they lost soldiers due to the blunder

  • 'canons to the right of them, canons to the left of them, canons in front of them' - repetition - shows violence - they are completely surrounded - no escaping - guaranteed death - 'volleyed and thundered ' (thrown and shaken), 'stormed at with shot and shell' (sibilance - attacked)
• COTLB - structure

  • 6 verses - tribute - one to each 100
  • tells a story - repeats 600 - has rhythm - less likely to forget - folklore - makes it seem unreal - critiques those who 'blundered' - it should have happened
  • 'someone had blundered' - blunt - bravery admired - future generation = inspired - don't forget the mistake, be careful with leadership
  • dactyl diameter - unstressed then stressed - sounds like horse galloping
  • 'dered' - 'wondered', 'thundered', 'blundered', 'sundered', 'shattered' - er = confusion, der = drums
• COTLB - context


  senior soldiers = but their position created 'blunder'

  Tennyson - critiques the upper classes decision during conflict in an open way (newspaper = no censorship - Poet Laurette) - relates to his Father in law refusing his marriage and then disowning his daughter

  Crimean war - Battle of Balaclava - GB, French, Turkey, Sardinia vs Russia - Russia wanted to take over Sardinia - led to GB fighting as they were scared Russia would take over India

  Light brigade = lightly armoured, not a lot of training