War Photographer — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
War Photographer
The poems
What you need to know
War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy: what it is about, its context, and how Duffy uses language, form and structure.
Key quotations and how to analyse them, and the poems in the cluster it compares well with, with similarities and differences.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'In his darkroom he is finally alone', 'spools of suffering set out in ordered rows', 'All flesh is grass', 'Solutions slop in trays', 'which did not tremble then / though seem to now', 'A hundred agonies in black-and-white', 'The reader's eyeballs prick / with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers', 'he earns his living and they do not care'.
Form: four regular stanzas and rhymes as the photographer's ordered darkroom, set against the chaos of war.
Context: Carol Ann Duffy's friendship with war photographers, and readers who look away.
