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Commentary on War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy
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Commentary on War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy is based on a war photographer who has experienced and witnessed the reality of war. The war photographer has returned to his quite home in England from his latest job. He develops the spools of film, he took in the frontline. As he organizes the pictures, he remembers the terrifying situation he is in, "A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes a half-formed ghost." Then, he sends those pictures to the Sunday newspaper, where his editor will choose the ones to be printed. However, the war photographer knows the pictures will not have a lasting effect as the readers "do not care" and sympathize with the sufferings of others. This poem is written in present tense, as if the incident is happening now, with the effect of making the picture more alive and...
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