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"War Photographer" by Carol Ann Duffy and "The War Drags On" by Donovan are two poems that are quiet similar and Different at the same time.They both have similarities and Differences in the focus of the poem,the speaker and his role,the literary devices,and the main purpose and message of the poet in the poem.Those Similarities and differences can be found in the poem directly and indirectly meaning that we can find obvious similarities or differences between them and at the same time we can need time to analyze things in the poem to find those similarities and differences. Firstly, there are differences and similarities in the main focus of the poem and what's it about generally.In War photographer,The main focus of the poem is mainly …show more content…

A similie is used when the poet says "The only light is red and softly glows,as though this were a church..."(3-4).Metaphors are also used, examples for them are "spools of sufferring"(2),"ordered rows"(2),"The only light is red and softly glows"(3-4),"All flesh is grass."(6),"running children in a nightmare heat."(12),and "blood stained into foreign dust."(18)Contradiction is also used for example when the poet says"black-and-white"(19).Imagery is used when the poet says "a half-formed ghost"(15),"blood stained"(18),the photographer is now in a church imagining that he's praying for the dead people.Synecdoche is another literary device used when the poet says "All flesh is grass"(6) in which the flesh is representing humans.Oxymoron device is used for example,"ordinary pain"(10) because pain can never be ordinary.On the other hand,in The War Drags On,personification is used for example when the poet says "And the guns they grew louder"(8),and"they made dust out of bones"(8).Alliteration is also used for example "blood and bones"(6),"without hope and without homes"(7),"guns they grew"(8),"scream and shoutin'..." (18)Examples of imagery used are "sea of blood and bones"(6),"they

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