war photographer

• "War Photographer" by Carol Ann Duffy - the speaker describes how they have become desensitized to violence and death due to their work as a war photographer.
• all flesh is grass
• “The only light is red and softly glows,

  as though this were a church and he

  a priest preparing to intone a Mass.”
• Rural England. Home again

  to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,

  to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet

  of running children in a nightmare heat.”
• A stranger’s features

  faintly start to twist before his eyes,

  a half-formed ghost.
• The reader’s eyeballs prick

  with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.”
• “From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where

  he earns his living and they do not care.”
• war photographer and poppies show the drastic effect of war on individuals
• war photographer and remains both discuss memories of war and the effect of suffering on them and others
• powerlessness to change conflict
• 3rd person omniscient voice
• in his dark room he is finally alone
• compare with COTLB
• ordered rows
• His hands which do not tremble then but though seem to now
• Blood stained into the foreign dust
• A hundred agonies in black and white
• a hundred agonies in black and white
• the only light is red and softly glows
• he has a job to do
• blood stained into foreign dust