WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

• "In a darkroom he is finally alone" - sense of depression and isolation
• "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" - metaphor for horrific images captured during conflict + reference to graves
• "Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass" - caesura allows reader to pause and reminisce each conflict + biblical allusion to human life being impermanent
• "He has a job to do" - monosyllabic highlights that this is his duty
• "which did not tremble then though seem to now" - he is reliving the conflict all over again
• "to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel" - UK problems are mundane and minor compared to those faced in other countries
• "of running children in a nightmare heat" - reference to photograph 'Napalm girl'
• "A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes"
• "how he sought approval without words to do what someone must" - modal verb emphasises how it is his moral duty to expose the realities of conflict
• "A hundred agonies in black-and-white" - metaphor for the images
• "The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers' - reflects the ignorance of people who live in an area with safety and security