Remember And War Photographer Comparison

In the poems Remember by Christina Rosetti and the poem War photographer by Carol Ann Duffy the theme of death is explored and received both warmly and sadly which creates a wonderful contrast between the positive and negative prospect of it. The poems are touching as they both release a feeling of sorrowful sensation suggesting their subject but give us different viewpoints which we can relate to. This essay is going to discus primary the distinction between the two poems that hold on the same matter.

The poem War Photographer discusses the theme of death from the perspective of modern warfare. In the poem we are introduced to a photographer who develops the pictures he had taken from the war thus provoking his thoughts and feelings ‘he
While primarily concerned with the theme of remembering after loss, the author precludes the possibility of her lover forgetting her ‘yet if you should forget me for a while’ and comforts him about the propriety of it ‘do not grieve’.
The poems seem to address a similar issue. In the first one death is looked at negatively with no outcome but sheer ignorance, while the second is seen more brightly as a natural thing after which life goes on and even as something that can be forgotten. The difference is that War Photographer introduces death as something brutal inhuman phenomenon that people should be more concerned with while Remember presents anticipated loss through the eyes of the one to
War photographer chooses to focus on metaphors which are more downbeat like ‘all flesh is grass’ in order to show the poet’s protesting attitude towards human suffering provoked by war. Duffy uses the symbolic association of ordinary language. So that a simple word like 'grass' can carry lots of possible meaning. She also includes this powerful imagery to shock us out of our complacency. The poem is highly structured. Each stanza ends with a couplet ‘he has a job to do’, ‘something is happening’, as if to conclude an argument. It helps the poem flow and send out its enlightening message to the community by keeping a temper rather than losing it.
On the other hand, in Remember, Rossetti uses strong but subtle vocabulary. Metaphors like ‘silent land’ maintain a generally optimistic view towards the subject of loss and the oxymoron ‘bitter-sweet’ again shows how the poet looks on death as something fear-free. She also uses a regular rhythm ‘remember me when I am gone away’ which adds to the portrayal of something natural and peaceful.
As a whole the language is extremely affectively used in order to propose the two different prospects of