poetry anthology

Question 1

context of poppies?

Answer 1

a mother writing about her son who’s gone to war and has potentially died

Question 2

context of war photographer?

Answer 2

about a photographer who is mentally scarred by the thing witnessed whilst at war - PTSD

Question 3

a quote from poppies? - metaphor

Answer 3

“i went into your bedroom and released a song bird from its cage”

Question 4

a quote from poppies? - physical senses

Answer 4

“”smoothed down your shirts upturned collar” “graze my nose across the tip of your nose”

Question 5

a quote from war photographer? - metaphor

Answer 5

“all flesh is grass” - emphasises the fragility of life + how it’s meaningless

Question 6

a quote from war photographer? - irony

Answer 6

“his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now” - infers he now suffers with ptsd and anxiety

Question 7

structure of poppies?

Answer 7

the 4 stanzas are all different lengths which suggests the chaos and conflict

no rhyme

lots of ceasura suggesting her getting her emotions together

Question 8

structure of war photographer?

Answer 8

there is a rhyme scheme

all 4 stanzas contain 6 lines each which symbolises how ordered, methodised and systematic the war was