can anyone tell me where this quote from the bible is from pease and what it means?

Question

"blood stained into foreign dust" because im not exactly sure where abouts it is also what does it mean

i know that it is in that poem i just dont understand what it means!

Answer 1

I've read the Bible from cover to cover and I've never seen that phrase. The closest thing I can think of is David's lament for Saul and Jonathan(2nd Samuel 1:19-27)

Answer 2

I found that phrase in a poem by Carol Ann Duffy

War Photographer





Carol Ann Duffy





In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
The only light is red and softly glows,
as though this were a church and he
a priest preparing to intone a Mass.
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.

He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays
beneath his hands which did not tremble then
though seem to now. Rural England. Home again
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,
to fields which don't explode beneath the feet
of running children in a nightmare heat.

Something is happening. A stranger's features
faintly start to twist before his eyes
a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries
of this man's wife, how he sought approval
without words to do what someone must
and how blood stained into foreign dust.

A hundred agonies in black-and-white
from which his editor will pick out five or six
for Sunday's supplement. The reader's eyeballs prick
with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.
From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where
he earns his living and they do not care.


The phrase describes a photographer's memory of blood from a dying woman darkening the ground.

Answer 3

It's not the bible. It's not even a biblical allusion, as far as I can tell.

It's from "War Photographer"
by Carol Ann Duffy

The horror and the suffering is reduced to a black and white image. The blood is no longer red, and all tales told by the photographs are reduced to a bare few, at an editor's whim.

A take on a bizarre world: without them we wouldn't know as much as we do, but what of reality do they convey?

"Anyone here been raped and speaks English?"
As Edward Behr chose for his autobigraphical take on journalism in war.

Answer 4

Bible? What gives you that idea? It is a line from "War Photographer" by poet Carol Ann Duffy.

Answer 5

For centuries the Jews were a warrior people. They had, and still do, fight for their lives. Much of the old testament and some of the new had to do with the wars they fought.

Answer 6

Its not in the bible

Answer 7

Are you sure its from the bible!

God loves you....God bless

Answer 8

"Never read it....."