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WAR ZONES SUFFERING: Choose a poem which has as one of its central concerns a personal, social or religious issue. Show how the content and the poetic techniques used increase your understanding of the issue. In your answer you must refer to the text and to such relevant features as: word choice, tone, imagery, content, structure, theme, sound ideas or any other appropriate feature Death and suffering Photographers sense of duty Societys indifference Don’t forget to use the steps you were taught in class: POINT EVIDENCE EXPLAIN LINK TO QUESTION War Photographer is a powerful poem by Carol Ann Duffy that has as one of its central concerns the social issue of war. Through the use of her poetic techniques such as imagery, word choice and theme, Duffy increases understanding of the death and suffering caused by war, the photographers sense of duty to document war and societys indifference to these terrible events. Introduction Introduction – Title Author (poet) Genre Link to question Refer to what you are going to do in your essay – link to the second sentence in the task and outline the techniques which you will discuss. (avoid using ‘In this essay I will…’ or ‘I am going to…’) Give a brief summary of the poem. What is it about? What happens? Where is it set? In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children