Carol Ann Duffy's poem "War Photographer" shows the life and actions of a photographer and shows how we do not do not appreciate what the photographer must see and go through. take photos. The poem shows that photographers are doing their duty, but we are not reacting to photographs as we should. “War Photographer” attempts to send a message to make us understand that war is a bad thing and that the public has become hardened to it. The war in the media does not affect us as much as it should. Publishers use gory images to shock readers because something disturbing shows the darker side of humanity. While editors publish photos of people suffering and facing death, their best interests are not those photographed, but those of readers, because the more shocking the images, the more people buy the paper. The fact that we buy newspapers because of the explicit photos shows us how hardened we are by war and that there is also a small element of pleasure when we see the photos. This is reflected in the editors of the “Sunday Supplements” who choose the five or six photos from the “Hundred agonies”. Throughout the poem, Duffy used the symbolism of words to create an ominous feeling. In the first paragraph of the poem, the photographer is in the “dark room” where “The only light is red.” The “dark room” symbolizes hatred, evil and death, which is linked to the “red” light which symbolizes death and blood. The photographer also conveys this theme, with “reels of suffering arranged in neat rows.” which depicts mass murders and thousands of graves, as does “all flesh is grass”, which shows how people are considered superfluous; "the grass" can grow back, which means people are never in the middle of paper...which never ends and wants us to become aware of it so we can try to break the cycle. Carol Anne Duffy uses "war photographer" to describe the destruction and devastation that war tends to bring. I feel like the photographer doesn't really like his job because he has painful memories because he "remembers the screams" this shows that seeing people die is something he never forgot. The war photographer goes through a lot of emotional pain and damage to take war photos. Duffy uses the poem to show that readers do not appreciate it as much as they should. Duffy believes that war is full of pain and that people in a peaceful society cannot truly understand the full impact of war. So we have become hardened to it and must do something to prevent the disaster in other countries from repeating itself. and more.