War Photographer- Carol Anne Duffy

COMPARE TO: Remains.

Themes:
 Memory:
The poem explores ideas of memory and the effect that
war can have on people. Even those not ‘directly’
affected.
‘He remembers the cries...’

 The horror of war:

The poem explores the idea of the horrors of war. And the struggles of memories.
‘running children in a nightmare heat’

Structure:
 4 stanzas, with 6 lines in each---> the uniformity links to the lack of identity to those who
have lost their lives in war. ‘ordered rows’
 Rhyme schemes of ABBCDD. In every stanza.

Quotes:
1. ‘spools of suffering’
2. ‘all flesh is grass’
3. ‘solutions slop in trays’
4. ‘running children in a nightmare heat’
5. ‘blood stained into foreign dust’
6. ‘a hundred agonies in black and white’
7. ‘the reader’s eyeballs prick...’
8. ‘he earns his living and they do not care’