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Poppies - Jane Weir
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- Poetic Techniques
- Alliteration
- 'steeled the softening on my face'
- Tough exterior not showing emotions
- Prepared herself
- Simile
- 'the world overflowing like a treasure chest'
- Excited to explore the world
- 'like a wishbone'
- Wishing he will return
- Language
- Imagery
- References to textiles
- 'crimped petals'
- Zigzag material
- 'All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt slowly melting'
- Felt-making representing emotion/grief when it enters the body
- The process of grieving
- The layers of emotion
- Enjambment
- Fluid, flow
- Representation of memories
- 'my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats'
- Seamstress vocabulary
- Nervous - waiting for news
- 'an ornamental stitch'
- Sewing imagery
- Decorative
- 'threw it open'
- Sudden movement suggests breaking a boundary
- Possible army or school link
- 'yellow binding around your blazer'
- School uniform? Army uniform?
- Suggestion that the boy is young
- 'I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind'
- Links leaving for army with leaving school
- 'released a song bird from its cage'
- Symbolic of freedom
- Links with letting her son go
- 'A split second and you were away, intoxicated'
- Left quickly
- Drunk with excitement
- 'play at being Eskimos like we did we did when you were little'
- Only use of 'we'
- Everywhere else has a very separate use of 'I' and 'You'
- Wants him to be young again
- Comparision
- Futility
- Looks at the emotional impact of war
- Title
- Named after the poppy tradition
- Connection to war
- Structure and Form
- Four stanzas
- First person
- Subject and Themes
- Set just before Armistice Sunday (remembrance day)
- The poem is about the nature of grief