War Photographer

• She was poet laurate and is friends with two famous war photographers
• The line " running children in a nightmare heat " could allude to a photo of a girl running from a napalm attack which led to protests to end the Vietnam war
• There is a rigid 6 line stanza structure and rhyme scheme showing the lack of power of the war photographer
• There is cyclical structure as the photographer enters a loop of coming back from war with photographs and the readers not caring
• Showing that life is temporary and we return to the ground

  " All flesh is grass "

  • Metaphor and short sentence
• The readers rection to war

  " The reader's eyeballs prick // with tears "

  • Enjambment
• The solutions are failing to work

  " Solutions slop in trays "

  • Sibilance
• The suffering at war is not powerful enough to disrupt ordinary people

  " Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows "

  • Sibilance