War Potographer
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War Photographer.
A poem I have read recently is 'War Photographer', it is written by Carol Ann Duffy. It is an evocative poem telling the horror of war. I think this because of how the author describes the places seen through the camera lens, the terrible things that happen and his view of what wartime life is like. My essay will try to explain the words and phrases which I think are effective throughout the poem.
In the first stanza the photographer is developing the films and in seeing the photo's coming to life, sees only the horror of war. In the second stanza the photographer is remembering back to where he took the pictures and thinking of what he has actually been through. "His hands which did not tremble then though seem to now." I think this quote from the poem shows that he didn't actually realise what he was in the middle of when he was there because he was busy concentrating on taking the pictures but now when he sees them he is shocked to see what he has been through. In stanza three I think that he is remembering one particularly bad incident and gets flashbacks of this, almost as if it was haunting him...