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War Photographer, "spools of suffering set" sibillance to create…
War Photographer
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"darkroom" metaphorically describes the depression the photographer has suffered from taking the photos of war.
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The personification of “All flesh is grass” belongs to the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, wherein the latter contrasts the shortness of human life with eternal religious truths.
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faintly start to twist before his eyes,
The poet is suggesting that the images are beginning to form and that photographer was seeing the pain of the photo forming
of this man's wife, how he sought approval
The man obviously has a right to privacy, but as the photographer doesn’t speak the native language of this country, he is unable to ask his grief-stricken wife’s permission to take the photos or, possibly, the wife is too much in despair to notice the photographer, so he has to take the photo without asking her.
Alternatively, ‘without words’ need not be literal but could signify that the photographer was too shocked and horrified to find words to show what he wanted to say, in any language.
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The only light is red and softly glows,
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to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,
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"spools of suffering set" sibillance to create a calm, negative mood.
"set out in ordered rows" refer to dead soldiers being buried.
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