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War Photographer is an emotional poem, designed to move, but also inform the reader. Carol Ann Duffy tries to reflect the views of a photographer conveying the pictures of suffering and grief back home- England. The structure of the poem allows the second and third as well as the last two lines of every stanza to rhyme and have equal syllables. The poet uses many contrasts in the second stanza, describing the troubles of normal life to the distresses of war. There are also many metaphors related to the whole idea of drawing, somewhat ironic and ambiguous, disparities between religious reconciliation and violent conflict. Yet, the stem of the poem remains loyal to the spectacle of the photographer. There are lot of complex ideas floating from the writing but the poet does well in trying to anchor them, whilst allowing a certain volume of economical ambiguity to fill the readers' mind....

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