In both of the poems, we,re currently studying in English, are both related to power. They both have a strong relation to power, the way they both have a powerful way of describing their feelings of before and after they done what they done.both of the poems are both called ‘War Photographer’ and ‘ Remains’. These both poems start of with a person with a heart, with feelings. They both have a job which they did not think it’ll affect them in the future as bad as they thought it would.
The photographer, is a person that works taking pictures in war. seeing people die is his job , taking pictures of children crying after their parents or family members are dying on the floor covered by blood. the photographer has one of the worst jobs there could be. the power shown in the poem, is that, he/she has the power to take pictures without having a mental breakdown. they have a strong heart to watch people die without running away and panicking. with the photographer, the main persons future, wouldn’t be the same as it was before seeing people get killed before your eyes would make anyone have a mental breakdown in the future.
The power of memory is used in both poems, in the war photographer and remains memory has a a big impact on both people due to the fact that their memory’s bring back the horrid past experience they had. There’s a saying that, the more you try to forget about something the more you remember and think about it more.
In remains when the author says ‘he’s here in my head when i close my eyes’ i really find that this quote expresses the power of memory because he is thinking about the guy he killed in the beginning and towards the end when he says ‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’ which basically resembles the way he used his hands to kill the person so he’s got bloody hands for the rest of his life.
Both of the poems talk about how they both had a life and their job. They are very similar because it starts with both of the persons living their normal life until something happens that scares their life forever. for the war photographer, he is a person that goes to war just to take pictures to the press or some other people or companies. In this quote in the war photographer, it shows the way the power of memory is used, ‘a strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost. he remembers the cries of this mans wife, how he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust’, it basically says how he remembers when the soldier died and his wife crying over him, he remembers how she was crying about his death. He said strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes, which basically explains the way how he gets flash backs to when he remembers the wife crying.
In the war photographer, when he was doing his job, to take pictures of people in war dying and fighting for what they thought was right, had a very painful side effect just as the quote tell us that ‘ solutions slop in trays beneath his hands’ which did not tremble then though seem to now’ the side effect he had was that he didn’t tremble back them when taking the pictures but after everything as over. From my point of view, the poet is telling us that, if its a horrible job and you don’t feel how horrible it is in the moment of doing it, you’ll feel it later in the future when the job is done.
In remains, the person has a very strong power of authority to be holding weapons and killing someone as a job, i know this information because of this quote that is in the poem Remains ‘ I see every round as it rips through his life, i see broad daylight on the other side’. In this quote it tells me that he has a gun as he says ‘ i see every round as it rips through his life’ by round meaning bullets or ammunition, as by saying i’ve got rounds of ammunitions. In the quote it starts of as well by saying’ he see’s broad day light on the other side’, meaning that the rounds he used to shoot the looter (as he says in the poem) have torn through his body to see the broad light on the other side. In the same poem theres a quote that says ‘So we’ve hit this looter a dozen and he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out’. This quote gives me more information about the person holding the gun, it tells me he is not alone as he says we’ve meaning we have, which means its more than one person involved. Straight after that, it tells me its a looter, so the people didn’t shoot someone with out a reason to, the main reason being that he’s a looter. In the same sentence it tells me that to person who got shot, that ‘he’s laying on the ground sort of inside out’ which gives me a better reason to believe that the people who shot the looter has been killed. By him saying the looter has been shot inside out, means that everything in the inside of a human, has been flipped outside, so all the guts and blood has been turns into his new exposed skin.
In the war photographer it gives me a goo explanation of what the job is really about and why he does it, ‘From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns a living and they do not care’ in this quote it tells me that he has a power of observation and authority, because he is looking down on an aeroplane to where the war is taking place. As well as the way he explains how he is impassively staring outside the plane window to where he earns a living, which means that is his job and he has to do this to earn his food and earn money to feed his family if he has one. The people who contracted him do not care, as long as he job is done, they do not care, as they said it in the quote.
Both of the poems have a large variety of powers. From my point of view they both share a strong power of memory and a power of authortiy which really stands out as in one poem, a group of people are holding guns and are allowed to shoot them and in the other hes flying on a plane on top of the battlefield. Not everyone can do that so thats tells me he has an authortiy so theres a power of authortiy.
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