war photographer

• "half-formed ghost"

  • metaphor for a dead body
  • feels guilty
  • emotional disconnect
• "priest preparing to intone a mass"

  • biblical reference to show that a priest has power to spread word of god and has power of the media
• well structured which contrasts his chaotic thoughts which are all over the place. it is predictable and unpredictable
• stanza 4

  • tone is angry
  • he is annoyed at how little people do about war
• "a hundred agonies in black-and-white"

  • personifies pain as it is the most powerful emotion
  • pain reduced just to an image
• "prick"

  • verb shows that the memories are always there to hurt you
  • in the moment people care but they never do anything about it once they see the photo
  • people are desensitized
• "blood stained"

  • metaphor to show the memories will always be there
  • power of memory
  • links to remains
• in stanzas 2 and 3 he is very detached from reality