poems Flashcards
In what person is poppies written
second person (direct address)
The voice is a mother talking to her son who is going to or has died at war.
what is the theme of poppies
a mothers talking about her son who is going or has died at war. grief, war, loss, memory.
what is quote from poppies that shows maternal instinct
I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose.
she misses the good old days.
A quote from poppies when the son leaves to go to war.
a split second and you were away, intoxicated.
the adjective intoxicated is the mother suggesting he is under the influence of the hype of going to war.
split second shows that time is going so fast.
we know that he wants to go and fight but the mother is not so sure.
what poet write poppies
Jane weir
How does the poem remains start
It starts in media res we are instantly thrown in. “On another occasion we got sent out” The quote shows that they had done this many tomes before because of the word another
Of what type is a lot of the language in the poem remains
A lot of the language in remains is conversational for example “and one of them legs it up the road” Legs it is very forward and conversational. “ Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear” the phrase “I swear” is very conversational
What is a quote that shows the horror of what the man saw in remains
” see every round d as it rips through his life”
Shows that he is very close and noticing every impact and detail.
what is a quote that shows the writer questioning himself in remains
“Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not.”
He is questioning his decision to kill him and wandering if he didn’t have to pull the trigger. Shows he might have PTSD.
What is a quit that shows how he is trying to recover from his PTSD in remains.
” And the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out”
The verb “flush” suggests the extent of his guilt and shows how it just won’t go. Suggests a Lack of support from society and how he is alone and has to turn to other measures.
who wrote remains
Simon Armitage
what are the themes of remains
The poem examines the effects of guilt and trauma both during and after active duty, and suggests that the effects of wartime violence linger long after soldiers leave the battlefield.\
Shows guilt conflict and life and death
How does Simon Armitage present conflict in Remains
- He presents conflict as unjust. The looter might have been unarmed and therefore not dangerous to the soldiers.
- He shows how the men are acting on orders.
- The speaker’s experience of killing a man seems to go unnoticed – there is no sense that he is offered support or help for the trauma he is suffering.
want is a quatrain
A stanza in poetry consisting of a group of four lines
who wrote war photographer
carol anne duffy
How its war photographer structured
The poem is laid out in four regular six-line stanzas, with each stanza ending in a rhyming couplet.
This organisation mirrors the actions of the photographer, who lays out his films in ordered rows, as though in doing so he can in some way help to restore order to this chaotic world.
The poem moves through a series of observations in the first three stanzas to a conclusion of sorts in the fourth.
a quote from war photographer about a the readers opinion of the photos
“the readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers”
Shows that the reader is not very emotional about the ongoings in the world. makes them seem very privileged. not much emotion
A quote from war photographer about the photos that have been taken
” a hundred agonies in black and white”
black and white suggests the colours has been sucked out from the image. photo lacks happiness its somber.
what are the themes of war photographer
the horror of war
our increasing indifference to the victims of conflict
The fact that most people can live oblivious or barely bothered about the fact there is a large amount of conflict across the world.
