war photographer

• summary

  Carole Satyamurti

  highlight contrast between the photographers professional detchament and emphathy and humanity
• context

  -british poet

  -had many jobs abroad

  -socialogist
• language, structure and form


  -free verse, reveals speakers true thoughts

  -varying stanza and line length refelcts idea that frames are flexible
• "the reassurance of the frame is flexible"


  -the stability of reassurance is immediately undermined by flexible, reflects ambiguity of photography

  -not only photo frame but frame of mind
• "a small girl staggering down some devasted street"


  -difference in language reinforces the divide, simple vs complex adjective, poetry vs wealth

  -shows consequences of war

  -girl is weak and struggling

  -small- innocence
• "peach, sun gilded girls silk crumpled champagne giggles"


  -many complex adjectives

  -excessive and relfects priviledged lifestyle
• "people eat sleep love normally while i seek out the tragic and the absurd"


  -addresses reader and society

  • people convince themselves the speaker actively seeks out tragedy rather than accpeting it as a reality