Imagery and Symbolism; Pictorial Visual, chromatic Auditory Associational

"running children in a nightmare heat" (allusion to a picture taken of a girl running down the street after having been burnt by napalm) "red light" - associated with sacrifice and blood "cries of this man's wife" - he must ignore, or rather look beyond, the pain of war in order to carry out his job "blood stained into foreign dust" - religious undertones; 'ashes to ashes'