Photographic Essay On Remembrance Day

The three narratives “Home Soil” by Irene Zabytko, “Song of Napalm” by Bruce Weigl, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen all have the same feelings of war and memory, although not everyone experiences the same war. Zabytko, Weigl, and Owen used shifting beats, dramatic descriptions, and intense, painful images, to convince us that the horror of war far outweighs the

Everyday men and women die in the most brutal way possible away from their family either killed from gun shots or landmines and they do come back. But in caskets, as images like these emphasize the destruction of war and these snaps just show the side effects of humankind's worse anger being shown. In the Article “The Stranger in the Photo Is Me”, Donald M. Murray expresses how harsh it really was in the war and how it changed himself forever and not in a good way. Not to mention, that he describes the way he felt ready to go to war, maybe even excited, but he wishes that horror on no one “I would not wish for a child or grandchild of mine to undergo the blood test of war” as the sacrifice these men and women go through is undeniably tremendous

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.

During times of war, it is inevitable for loss to be experienced by all. In the poems “The Black Rat” and “The Photograph” written by Iris Clayton and Peter Kocan respectively, the idea of loss is explored through an omniscient narrator recalling a soldier’s involvement in warfare. While Clayton writes of a soldier’s abrupt loss of hope and how this experience negatively affects his life, Kocan explores how the loss of a loved one affects a family sixty years later. While both poems incorporate similar techniques in imagery and narration, the time setting for each poem is different as “The Black Rat” is set in Tobruk, Libya during World War 2 and “The Photograph” is set during World War 1.

In the story “The War Photo No One Would Publish” by Torie Rose DeGhett the photographer (Kenneth Jarecke) takes gruesome photographs of deceased war victims. In 1991, the photo was taken of an Iraqi soldier struggling to pull himself out of a burning vehicle. The fire “incarcerated him to ash and blackened bone” (The War Photo No One Would Publish 1). After taking the photo, Jarecke wanted the image to be published but, due to its unsightly nature no one would publish it. DeGhett believed that this photo should be published he is trying to convince you as to why. The reason this shall not be posted is this soldier is somebody's family member; they do not want to see that image disseminated to the public.

The memories and feelings that the memorial brings forth from the veteran are the driving force to the tone of the poem. The poems is heavy and heartbreaking. It clearly shows that the visit to the memorial has an enormous impact on the author. The author describes several different visions he has while at the memorial. The visions that he has are as real to him as if they were physically present. The author makes it easy to see and feel things through his eyes. The words used to describe his thoughts and feeling evoke emotions of sadness and at times, even despair.

Looking at the memorial hurt, but touching the memorial is what killed. A surge of pain ran up my arm as I placed my hand upon the memorial and began thinking of all the pain it had brought me even though years had passed. As the agony engulfed me, I fell to my knees. Then I began to ponder why anyone would want such a concrete reminder of what happened during this disastrous event. These are the thoughts that may have went through the minds of the subjects in the images, A Man Kneels before the 9/11 Memorial and The Old Vet and His Tank. Both of these photographs depict sadness for the viewer by making the men the focal points of the images. The photographers, Justin Lane and English Russia, additionally portray sorrow by the context and

I am Ella Karcewski reporting to you on this gloomy Spring evening, hoping that this war may soon be over. I am currently experiencing a day that I will never forget. The images that I am seeing, and the heartbreaking pain that I am feeling will never be erased from my naive mind. I feel nearly speechless and am saddened for those drastically affected by this war. I am encountering a tragedy as soldiers and horses alike are collapsing to the ground, screams of pain coming from their courageous bodies. Pouring rain is drenching horses and soldiers, and darkness is curtained over the gloomy sky. Ominous clouds fill the atmosphere above, and it seems that the sun wouldn’t dare peek out on this bellicose April day in 1915. All of this French territory

Although Stephen Cushman describes the choice to photograph decomposing bodies, on one hand, as a disservice to the soldiers because of the timeless denial of beneath-ground burial, the photograph suffices as an unorthodox means of burial. The souls of these soldiers may forever lay rotting in a field without so much as a traditional implication of remembrance, but omitting a semblance of physical fighting and additional remains in the background advocates a private burial for the six bodies. Trachtenberg explains the photograph to be a form of remembrance for those who laid their life on the line for their country because a photograph is a permanent document that people can perpetually reference; thus, it brings together the dead and alive

Gioconda R Saraneiro became the first appointed female captain in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps. Initially appointed a Lieutentant junior grade in the WAVES during World War II in 1943, she left the Navy to teach and start a medical practice. She returned to the Navy in 1949 and retired in 1966. Captain Saraneiro passed in 1983.

Poets frequently utilize vivid images to further depict the overall meaning of their works. The imagery in “& the War Was in Its Infancy Then,” by Maurice Emerson Decaul, conveys mental images in the reader’s mind that shows the physical damage of war with the addition of the emotional effect it has on a person. The reader can conclude the speaker is a soldier because the poem is written from a soldier’s point of view, someone who had to have been a first hand witness. The poem is about a man who is emotionally damaged due to war and has had to learn to cope with his surroundings. By use of imagery the reader gets a deeper sense of how the man felt during the war. Through the use of imagery, tone, and deeper meaning, Decaul shows us the

The delicate beauty of a flower has been recognized by every generation, starting at even the beginning of time and prevailing during even the grimmest of situations. In 1920, two years after the end of WWI, a now hailed woman by the name of Moina Michael began a tradition that would last for years to come. She, like so many others, had been deeply affected by the war and, inspired by the poem In Flanders Fields, proposed presenting the poppy flower as a symbol of remembrance of those who had given their lives to the war. This small proposal led to the poppy flower being worn every Armistice day. It became a tribute to those who were strong enough to fight and die for their country, and those who fought to right the flaws and weaknesses of

The image itself is a side by side comparison of three close ups featuring the soldiers face. Of the little background visible it is colourless and features no objects. As a result, the face in the image recieves all of the audience’s attention. The images are placed in a chronoligical order with the portrait of the solder prior to his deployment on the left, during in the center and him after returning home on the right. By placing the images in this order the photographer, Lalage Snow, creates a story, unfolding right in front of the audience’s eyes. Although each induviduals interpretation of what that story tells may differ there is an underlying theme that resonates with emotional and physical stress, strain and fatuige.

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Through the diverse methods of using powerful images, contrasts, references to the locations of infamous war zones, metaphors, sentence structure, and formatting styles, the readers are able to see the egregious poem freely. As Carol Ann Duffy discloses the poem, the photographs contain countless images of hardship and suffering endured by those affected by the war.