Death is a huge part of life. Everyone experiences it at least once in their lives. It can affect different people in various ways, some may choose to ignore it, some may get vigorously torn apart by it and others chose to fight it with the utmost of powers. This is shown in the key poems ‘War Photographer’, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘A mother in a refugee camp’. All of these poems show particular differences in their attitudes towards death; which is also seen in the further poems ‘Out of the Blue’, ‘Funeral Blues’ and ‘Mid-Term Break’.
In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘War Photographer’ is about the experience of a photographer in the inhuman circumstances of a warzone. The poem explores many things but one of the main things is the apathy of people in the comfort of their own to those in war zones. Duffy uses such powerful emotions to convey to readers the untold miseries and sufferings associated with war. Throughout the poem there are many connotations of the violence of the death witnessed by the photographer.
The structure of this poem might represent in some way the photographers attempt to order his emotions. When we first look at the poem we see that it …show more content…
From the start of the poem, Achebe describes the bleak reality and horrors of a refugee camp, bringing pathos upon the reader by the use of evocative imagery. ‘The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea’ intensifies the inhuman living conditions in which the mother and her baby were suffering. The quote ‘unwashed children with washed-out ribs’ within it holds contradiction. "Unwashed" and "washed-out" exploits the nature of the conditions they are living in. ‘Unwashed’ showing the neglect of the children by their parents and ‘washed-out’ relating to their physicality due to the fact their flesh has been drained away by the hunger they
In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘War Photographer’ is about the experience of a photographer in the inhuman circumstances of a warzone. The poem explores many things but one of the main things is the apathy of people in the comfort of their own to those in war zones. Duffy uses such powerful emotions to convey to readers the untold miseries and sufferings associated with war. Throughout the poem there are many connotations of the violence of the death witnessed by the photographer.
The structure of this poem might represent in some way the photographers attempt to order his emotions. When we first look at the poem we see that it …show more content…
From the start of the poem, Achebe describes the bleak reality and horrors of a refugee camp, bringing pathos upon the reader by the use of evocative imagery. ‘The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea’ intensifies the inhuman living conditions in which the mother and her baby were suffering. The quote ‘unwashed children with washed-out ribs’ within it holds contradiction. "Unwashed" and "washed-out" exploits the nature of the conditions they are living in. ‘Unwashed’ showing the neglect of the children by their parents and ‘washed-out’ relating to their physicality due to the fact their flesh has been drained away by the hunger they