War photographer

• "all flesh is grass" 


  Biblical imagery and a metaphor

  This quote points out the scale of bloodshed and created a Gruesome imagery in the readers head

  This is also a line from the Bible that means human life is temporary
• "spools of suffering set out in order rows" 


  Imagery language and metaphor

  This quote hints the photographer's efferts to make sense of and order something so horrific
• "the reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and prey lunch beer's


  This quote shows the comfort of those at home who are not directly affected by the war

  This image contrasts with the images of pain that run throughout the poem
• "running children in nightmare heat"

  This quote is designed to make the readers understand the intensity of the suffering caused by war

  Duffy refers to children to remind the reader of the innocent lives affected by war
• " a hundred agonies in black and white" 


  This quote is designed to make the reader understand the intensity suffering caused by the war