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Mind Map by Samira Choudhury, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Samira Choudhury
over 7 years ago
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Poppies - Jane Weir
- 'Flattened, rolled, and turned into
felt' - Rule of three, words not
heard, textiles what women would have done
- 'Bias binding' - Alliteration,
thought of blood
- Based on Susan Owen, Wilfred
Owen's mother
- 'Armistice Sun day' - Noun, remembrance,
memories, WW1, end of fighting
- 'Impulse' - Noun,
natural instinct
- 'Blackthorns of your hair' - Metaphor, no longer
a child, sharp, warning her off
- War poems usually written by
men, ususual for women
- 'Three days' - Past
- 'Poppies' - Noun, death
- Free verse, no regular rhyme or
rhythm - No regulation without him
- 'Red' - Noun, blood
- 'Spasms' - Noun, shot, body/muscle spasm
- 'Placed' - Verb, gentle, caring
- 'Individual war graves' - Individual people,
together at war, alone after death
- 'Crimped petals' -
Hurt, injured
- 'Resisted' - Verb, held back
- 'Before you left' - Speaking to son, still
with her, poetic voice
- 19 lines with punctuation - Calm, composed
- 'I pinned' - First person, sent
him off to his death
- 'Smoothed' - Loving
- 'Play' - Verb,
innocent, childhood
- 'Bandaged' - Metaphor,
verb, injured
- 'Rounded up as many white cat
hairs' - Proud, presentable
- 'Steeled the softening' - Verb, brave
face, not showing emotions
- 'Wanted' - Verb, held back, didn't, couldn't, maternal
instinct
- 'Threw it open' - Verb , not wanting to
- 'Slowly' - Adverb, not wanting to let
go, savor every moment left
- 'Split second' -
Gone so quick
- 'Busy making tucks, darts, pleats' - Keeping busy, making up possibilities
- 'Went to your bedroom' - Misses him
- 'World overflowing like a treasure chest' - Simile,
big, opportunities for him, exciting
- 'Intoxicated' - Verb,
consumed by world, free
- 'Without a winter coat' - Cold inside, not thinking, numb, can't feel
- 'Gone' - Adjective,
alone, lonely
- 'Released a song bird from its cage' - Won't
return, out of her clutches
- 'A single dove flew'
- Noun, peace,
mourning, death
- 'Wishbone' - Noun, fragile,
wishing son would return
- 'Dove pulled
freely' - Son is
free
- 'Hope to hear' -
Alliteration, breathing
- 'Playground voice catching
on the wind' - Wants son to
be child again, still hear him
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