War Photographer Poem Critical Essays

The poem works on a very personal level - it is based on the authentic experience of a war photographer - and on a much wider level, saying something about the views and attitudes within our society concerning things that happen much further away.In the 1970s Carol Ann Duffy was friendly with Don McCullin, a famous photographer whose photographs of war were widely published and respected.Critical Analysis of War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.The last line of the poem - a stark juxtaposition - seems to focus the reader's thoughts on the dilemma posed by war reporting: "he earns his living and they do not care."The war photographer is the man who goes be...

Six Young Men might have a greater impact on some readers because it speaks of six different characters affected by war rather than sufferings of war in general, and Ted Hughes last verse is far more haunting than Duffy’s as he manages to show the six men as no more alive than any man you meet nor any more dead than any prehistoric beast.Apart from the poems “Six Young Men” by Ted Hughes and “War Photographer” by Carol Anne Duffy, “Vergissmeinicht” by Keith Douglas and “Bombing Casualties in Spain” by Herbert Read also show the futility of war, without minimizing the horrors it creates.The poem is written in a far more direct form as opposed to the War Photographer, where many metaphors and similes have been employed, but still the poet ...

Imagery is an effective technique used in the by the poet in “War Photographer”.To conclude, “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy is a thought provoking poem which makes us question the morality of taking photographs at war.As well as feeling pity towards the photographer, we also feel pity towards the victims of war.The poet uses many literally techniques such as word choice, imagery, and tone to make us feel pity towards the photographer and the victims of war.The photographer is seeking acceptance from the war victims so that he himself can justify what he is doing.

In “War Photographer” the author used simple and contemporary easy language.In the poem “War Photographer” the poet uses difficult imagery.In the “War Photographer” sounds are strong and painful.For example poems “War Photographer” and “Field-Mouse” both describe the war and how horrible it is to live in the country where is the war.The poems “War Photographer” and “Field-Mouse” shows people attitudes for the war in general.

In War Photographer the structure and length of each stanza remains constant throughout, and this regular form mirrors the environment and emotions of the photographer.Her poem is fictional and written about a war photographer alone in his darkroom.In Owen’s poem he focuses on the horror and injustice of war and the impact it had on the young soldiers who were being killed and destroyed by it.The poem War Photographer I could relate more to because it typifies people’s attitude and indifference to war today; out of sight, out of mind.His anger is directed at the people in England who believed that there was honour in dying for your country and glamorised and glorified war encouraging innocent children ‘desperate’ for ‘glory’ to become a ...

In ‘War Photographer’ a war photographer has returned from his latest job to his quiet home in England.‘War Photographer’ is written in four regular stanzas, which helps to emphasise the regular, tedious and uninteresting pattern of the photographer’s job.In conclusion the way in which warfare is portrayed in ‘Peace’ and ‘War Photographer’, depended strongly upon the historical context and the ideas and attitude of the poet.Rupert Brooke makes war out to be a fantastic opportunity for the men of England, whereas Carol Ann Duffy portrays war as an emotionally painful experience.Rupert Brook described death to be the worst that could happen at war, its simple quick and honourable to die for your country, whereas we are given images by Caro...

In conclusion I believe “War Photograph” has a great deal more impact than “War Photographer” The poem is structured well with simple short sharp sentences that are extremely effective and also longer detailed descriptions.In “War Photographer” the vision of children is always conveyed in the lines “…fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat.” The image of children is hidden within the shocking description of how dangerous the surroundings are there in contrast to where he is now, “fields which don’t explode”.The second poem, “War Photograph” has a less successful impact on the reader.The poet explains to us in “War Photographer” how the photographer needs to control his emotion to continue profe...

These metophores seem to be effective by shocking the reader I think Carol Anne Duffy has intended the reader to start to think of the effects of the war not only on the victims but on the people who work their such as the War photographer, newsreaders or charity workers who aren’t necessarilly thought of being affected by war.The poem opens with the Photographer coming home from his job and ends with him flying out to another job this implies his life runs in a cycle.The war photographer is set in four regular stanzas which emphasises the pattern of the war photographers day.It is hard to establish what the message is in the war photographer at times he is praising the war photographers job And condeming the people he works for at other...

Therefore, the religious imagery in both the War Photographer and the Tyger question whether God’s good will for creating suffering in the world emphasized through the creation of the Tyger and War.Similarly, in War Photographer Carol Ann Duffy mentions how the War photographer “sought approval without words to do what someone must.” .This produces a contrasting image on the War Photographer as it suggests he is doing something right and “what someone must” as making people aware of the death and suffering in the world, is a step closer to resolving this problem of war.For example the War photographer’s hand is described to “tremble” when he is forming the pictures of “agonies.” The words “agonies” and “tremble” paint a vivid image of ...

`Dulce et Decorum Est`, is written by Wilfred Owen, he has done many other well-known war poems and was tragically killed during the great war.War Photographer was written by Carol Ann Duffy, it is not a first hand piece of writing, she has written about a male photographer that has gone to war to take photos.The pictures taken were war photographs, most pictures taken in war had horrific outcomes, people dying or injured.The first three lines are about his view on going to war, he describes it as if he was forced to go to war.The photographer cannot be part of his home setting because of the horrors he has witnessed, and the people for whom he works cannot fully appreciate the photographer’s work because they have no idea of the real ci...

You can also look at the poem Dulce ET decorum EST which is similar in that it involves the public, Wilfred Owen was a writer from world war one and he disliked how war was displayed to the public that everyone was a hero and they always won.There comes no worse than a death of a child especially your own, you may say this poem demonstrates death more intensely than war photographer or Wilfred Owens poem this is similar to Mid term break where Seamus Heaney talks about the death of a younger brother and they are similar in that a child is used to amplify the sympathy from the reader.So Owen met some friends and they wrote poems about what the war was really like and this is where he wrote this poem and in it uses the phrase “the old lie ...

On the other hand, War Photographer mentions this keyhole effect briefly, and then moves on.Where War Photographer shows us memories of a person, captured through photos, War Photograph shows us what happens after a single picture is taken, giving us a more realistic view of the war in question.The Photographer takes solace in his his room where “the only light is red and softly glows” This could be in comparison to the harsh glare of explosions, bright sunlight or the symbolic, dark aftermath of the war and the light could be in contrast to that darkness.In the poem War Photographer, the idea of the photographer being “finally alone” makes us think how he could be using it as a form of sanctuary for himself after being in all the chaoti...

And through the poem she has use a metaphor ‘he a priest preparing to intone a mass’ to compare the character as a priest showing how sorrowful the photographer is.This is very different to War Photographer because Dylan Thomas is showing his angry rejection towards death where else Carol Ann Duffy is depress from the victims of war.In War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy discusses the death caused by wars.Likewise, both poet’s from War Photographer and Dulce et Decorum Est were disturb by the scenes from wars however Wilfred Owen only wrote about the gas attack which most disturbed him and Carol Ann Duffy wrote the whole poem based on wars in general.Dylan Thomas is trying to encourage his father to continue his life instead of showing the...

Here the poet is describing the famine caused by war (Biafran War) in his native Nigeria.Likewise, both poet’s from War Photographer and Dulce et Decorum Est were disturb by the scenes from wars however Wilfred Owen only wrote about the gas attack which most disturbed him and Carol Ann Duffy wrote the whole poem based on wars in general.Dylan Thomas is trying to encourage his father to continue his life instead of showing the weaknesses of human race in War Photographer.Furthermore, the comparison of the photographer and the priest also shows the job the photographer is doing is seem to be very sacred and he takes a high responsibility for this mission.From War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy has covey the misery cause by war in a very emo...

In the third stanza of the poem, he watches the photograph as it is developing.When he is at home in his dark room, everything is calm and peaceful, unlike the war zones that he has to work in.In “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy tells the story of a war photographer who has just returned from battle an is developing his photos in his darkroom.Another victim of war and brutality.Both of these poems deal with the emotional impact of war on the families of its victims.

In conclusion, through the use of language and vivid imagery, the poet creates a gloomy and depressing mood throughout the poem to bring about the sorrow of human suffering and clearly indicate the cruelty of war and the drastic effects it has on many.These aspects help to express the theme of the poem, which is the cruelty of war and human suffering.The fact that the photographer thought of his work as “what someone must [do]” tells us that he does not enjoy what he is doing, but thinks of it as a necessity, thus exemplifying the gloomy mood of the poem as readers will pity him for what he has to do, despite not wanting to.In the first stanza, the phrase “darkroom he is finally alone” paints a picture depicting the depressing feel of wa...

Widely regarded as the “first iconic photograph of war” (see Addendum B, fig.It is from these images taken that we gather the most knowledge and understanding of the curcumstances which occurred during the War.The Life Library’s Documentary Photography (1972) defined it as ‘a depiction of the real world by a photographer whose intent is to communicate something of importance—to make a comment—that will be understood by the viewer’.As seen by Fentons description this image fulfils the role of the documentary photographer in that it is a visual record of history in the making.Brady is best acknowledged for the documentation of the American Civil War and his portraits of celebrities.

In Wedding Photograph, 1913, Judith Wrights views on society in her time was made evident through the insertion of alliteration that contributed to conveying the concept of war, and the devastation it can inflict upon those directly and indirectly involved with it.In the poems, Wedding Photograph, 1913 and The Old Prison, poet Judith Wright uses strong imagery to comment on the themes and issues present in society, from the devastation of war which is relayed through the use of personification and alliteration, to the impracticality of altering the past showed by the inclusion of symbolism and simile.The use of symbolism in this poem is made clear even in the title Wedding Photograph, 1913 as we immediately know that this poem is related...

In comparison to the others, A mother in a refugee camp discusses more about love during a war.The poems War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy, A Mother in a Refugee camp by Chinua Achebe and Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas may at first seem to have a little in common.Likewise in A Mother in a Refugee Camp strong emotions was also the main theme of the poem.His detailed description illustrates his outrage at the suffering cause by war.In Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen has describe a gas attack during World War One with his strong emotions.

In contrast ‘The sick equation’ has no particular Patten to the shape of the poem.When anaylising each poem it .‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Sick Equation’ by Brian Patterson and ‘I Shall .pews in rows , that have come to attend a service of loved ones lost in the war ‘.poem to various degrees.

This is a Civil War poem.She was also fascinated by the war.Although the speaker of this poem rises above history, her soaring flight is troubled.In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, Emily Dickinson imagines floating high above the earth and its history, looking down.Poems such as “Behind Me – dips Eternity” bring together Dickinson’s preoccupations with perspective, with historical and theological time, and with the war.

World War I, Larkin argues was a horrendous wound to the English nervous system, wherein an idyllic summer was converted into several years of bloodshed.As a corollary with these realities, foundations of kinship, social injustice and war seem to overshadow the poetry of the decade.Following the end of the war, MacNeice’s work at the outset develops into more philosophical speculative verses, revealing a re-assessment of the function of art and a yearning for some kind of faith.Each collection articulates an existential appreciation of nothingness and an antipathy with the deterioration of England following the war.“Never such innocence” (25) is Larkin’s reiterated and memorialising supposition, evoking all the terror of which those men ...

Mai’s memory of the re-education camps “as the bus pulled out, a residue of memory surfaced in Mai’s mind.” this was the interrelationship and memories of the suffering that her father was and the effect of the war showing the great suffering that her father was possessing.This relates to Le’s The Boat because it was written in as a dual narrative which means that the story is being told from two different perspectives; Levertov’s A Letter to Marek about a Photograph has been written in a letter format, has a very different style and structure.Denise Levertov’s Libation and A Letter to Marek about a Photograph are showing personal experiences as well as a sense of separation and about the World War 2 refugees.Whilst Denise Levertov’s poe...

In 1954, Jacques Prévert recorded twenty poems of Paroles which he recites accompanied with the guitar of Henri Crolla by countering improvised (album 25 cm, Collection Auteurs du 20è siècle, Philips P76.708).The texts of Jacques Prévert were first published in isolation in various journals since the 1930s (Commerce, Bifur, the Surrealist Revolution, Cahiers GLM / Guy Lévis-Mano, Soutes, Cahiers d'art) before being partially grouped together in an amateur fashion by students from Reims at the end of the war.In 1945, René Bertelé in turn brought together the texts of Jacques Prévert with the agreement of the poet for the publishing house he had just created, Éditions du Point du jour, and he published the collection on May 10, 1946 under ...

Fifty years on, they can see that World War I had no final good purpose and that all that World War I did for Great Britain was not to make it safer or better but just to change the way of life they had always known.Unlike Larkin’s poem, Hughes’s third stanza has some very graphic violence as he moves away from the peaceful English countryside and goes directly into the war zone.Like Larkin’s poem, Hughes’s poem compares fragile human existence with the endlessness of Nature and puts us in the glade with an image that the reader can almost hear and see (“you hear the water of seven streams fall”).Larkin uses the word ‘Domesday’ about the field boundaries, which shows that these fields have been unchanged since medieval times (when the Do...

These techniques include sound, lighting, projecting image, emotive words and imagery.This allowed the audience to see the truth behind what was going on in the image and what purpose was behind it.In Kenneth Slessor’s 1942 poem ‘Beach Burial’ he also comments about survival in war and the power in distinctively visual ways through particular words.Distinctively visual texts use a variety of techniques to convey the experiences during the war.The distinctive experience of power and survival is shown in Kenneth Slessor’s poem, ‘Beach Burial’ The use of colour imagery and similes of the men’s inscription being ‘as blue as drowned men’s lips’ and “vast number of dead sailors” “the blue lips of the drowned bodies” is disturbing as it vividly...

He was a writer of great ability, photographer of genius, gallery owner, a publisher of inspiration, exhibition organizer of modern art exhibitions and photographic art exhibitions, charismatic leader and a catalyst in art and photographic worlds.Alfred Stieglitz was an American born photographer who was born in 1864 and died in 1946.Since the time this photographer died, nobody known has contributed massively than him in this field, and he is therefore labeled the patron saint of straight photography.He was a collector, patron, publisher discoverer of photographers and artists in other media and was personally a great photographer (Cahill, 1965, 13).The photographer and the American landscape.

The poem is related to the theme of belonging when Atwood’s speaker seems to be attached to the house in the photograph.Atwood breaks the poem into stanzas making it easier to determine where the tone and setting of the poem changes.As time goes on the speaker reveals that she has drowned and this is significant because the speaker has felt like she is not noticed throughout the poem.Lastly Margaret Atwood uses imagery throughout the poem, “This is a Photograph of Me”.The irony of the title is that the photograph we are presented with in the poem is not just a single photograph of a person.

In the picture I have of you" .For example, here she refers to the picture of her father: .Plath claimed that in this poem she was adopting the persona of a girl with an Electra complex whose father had been a fascist, but while the poem is not completely autobiographical, it contains several obvious references to her own life.The violence of its imagery and tone, the references to concentration camps, torture and fascism certainly evoke Picasso’s most celebrated painting.He has also called it, "the Guernica of modern poetry."

Overall, these works mimic the questions and concepts raised by the Irish ‘troubles’ and show such issues played out linguistically, stylistically, and symbolically through petry that is at once stark and gentle, uncompromising and moderate.In a photograph, .Reference will be made within the essay to different critical views upon his work, and to the underlying and associated political dimensions of the context within which the works were produced.Johnson (2005) suggests that this poem serves to articulate and present the tragedy of a people in a place, the Catholics of Northern Ireland.However, this author would also argue that these themes may be as much a product of the reader’s interpretation, based on a knowledge of the poet and his...