Comparison of War Photographer and What Price
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Comparison of "War Photographer" and "What Price?"
Many poets in the world tend to talk about the same ideas in their works and use same images and symbols across their poems. However, there is always an exception when every poet goes off into a different direction and talks about things he normally wouldn't. Same is true for a British writer Carol Ann Duffy, who has a theme of broken love and relationship going through most of her works. But off course, there are exceptions, poems in which she talks about something else, something that was on her mind. Examples of such poems are "War Photographer" and "What Price".
At first, the two poems might seem very different as they are talking about different ideas. In "War Photographer", the author is criticizing the war by showing how horrible it is and what pain and suffering it can bring to people: "He remembers the cries of this man's wife" When in "What Price?" the teller of the story is talking about Hitler's diaries, and how many people he has killed in a very calm, laid back tone:" The journals will be his chance to explain, I'm certainly convinced that they are real." Together with that, the poem is talking about the Holocaust but in a very careless way when in "War Photographer" the main character can feel the suffering of the people on the pictures he has taken and really cares about that...