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Poppies - Jane Weir
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In depth analysis of Jane Weir's poem Poppies from conflict section of English Literature anthology Moon on the Tides. Information on structure, language, form, techniques, imagery, comparisons included.
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poppies
jane weir
english
english literature
english lit
poem
conflict poem
conflict
moon on the tides
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gcse english
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english
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Poppies - Jane Weir
Attachments:
The Yellow Palm - Robert Minhinnick
Flag - John Agard
Belfast Confetti - Ciaran Carson
Futility - Wilfred Owen
next to of course god america i - E.E.Cummings
Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers
Extract from Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage
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
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