https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml Made with wonder en-us 2020-06-17 13:05:53 UTC 2020-06-17 14:52:56 UTC hello@padlet.com 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630514741 2020-06-17 13:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630514741 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630517240  A war photographer develops images of conflict.He was aware that the newspaper editors and readers would pay little attention, knowing this made him feel distant from his homeland.]]> 2020-06-17 13:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630517240 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630523981 the horror of war, guilt, sorrow and suffering.]]> 2020-06-17 13:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630523981 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630528719 The photographer lays out "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" METAPHORICALLY he is trying to make sense of the suffering. The poems RIGID STRUCTURE reflects this since it contrasts with the disturbing imagery. rhyming COUPLETS perhaps reflect the "order" of life in his peaceful home, while the non-rhyming lines reflect his short visits to the chaotic warzones.]]> 2020-06-17 13:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630528719 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630545218 "all flesh is grass" reinforces religious imagery as well as emphasising the frajility of life - this contradicts conflict.]]> 2020-06-17 13:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630545218 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630553016 A similie likens the photographer to a preist. The red light is like the red lantern, the red light in the darkroom may represent blood.]]> 2020-06-17 13:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630553016 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630559692 "Belfast.Beirut.Phnom penh"- places of terrorism or civil war. The short sentances and caesurae create a sense of snapshots, like his photos and short visits to warzones . The PLOSIVES create an aggresive sound, reflecting sounds of war.]]> 2020-06-17 13:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630559692 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630569736 In stanza 3 the photo is developed. "twist" helps us picture the agony on the injured mans face, while "half-formed ghost". makes it clear this man died in front of the photographer.]]> 2020-06-17 13:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630569736 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630576036 "solutions slop in trays" has a double meaning. liquid 'solutions' are used to deveklop photos, but pehaps the photos could lead to a solution to wars?
the sibilance reflects the noise of slopping fluids.]]> 2020-06-17 13:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630576036 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630620996 The photographer captured "a hundred agonies in black - and -white" the idiom 'black-and-white' means it cannot cause confusion - his photos certainly show pain. yet the editor shows in difference- "you will pick out five of six/for the sunday sipplement"]]> 2020-06-17 14:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630620996 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630678808 "ordinary pain" is somewhat oxymoronic; the photographer knows 'pain' in a peaceful country is nothing compared to pain in a war zone. "running children in anightmare heat" conjures up the image of a famous photo of children running from napalm in vietnem war.]]> 2020-06-17 14:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630678808 16eshseth https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630686795 Bathos shows the reders responce: "the reders eyeballs prick/with tears between baths and pre-lunch beers." They momentarily respond in between relaxation and indulgence..it is an anti-climatic end for he (and others) went through and implies that photos will have little effect.]]> 2020-06-17 14:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/16eshseth/sn07m2qeoiucwyml/wish/630686795