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A stranger’s features slowly start to twist before his eyes

A stranger’s features slowly start to twist before his eyes. Big Question How does Carol Ann Duffy present different attitudes to the brutality of war in ‘War Photographer’? Context The Economist. Literacy Task

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A stranger’s features slowly start to twist before his eyes

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  1. A stranger’s features slowly start to twist before his eyes

  2. Big Question How does Carol Ann Duffy present different attitudes to the brutality of war in ‘War Photographer’? Context The Economist

  3. Literacy Task Through out the poem Duffy provokes us to consider our own response when confronted with the photo graphs that we regularly see in our newspaper suplements, and why so many of us have became desensitised to these images. Source: BBC Bitesize

  4. Literacy Task Throughout the poem, Duffy provokes us to consider our own response when confronted with the photographs that we regularly see in our newspaper supplements, and why so many of us have become desensitised to these images. Source: BBC Bitesize

  5. Big Question How does Carol Ann Duffy present different attitudes to the brutality of war in ‘War Photographer’?

  6. Big Question How does Carol Ann Duffy present different attitudes to the brutality of war in ‘War Photographer’? • Verb • Metaphor • Allusion The ‘softly’ glowing red light in the darkroom is evocative of blood and danger – two associations that connect directly with the global conflict areas of ‘Belfast’, ‘Beirut’, and ‘Phnom Penh’. The lack of contextual information provided by Duffy encourages the reader to reflect on the indescribable suffering and pain that was endured in the cities when they were war zones...

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