Poppies Flashcards
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Poppies - Form
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1st person narrative, a mother’s emotions
No regular rhyme or rhythm, narrators thoughts and memories
Long sentence and enjambment, absorbed in thoughts and memories
Caesura, trying to hold her emotions together
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Poppies - Structure
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Chronological, ambiguous time frame, showing memories entwined with no clear distinctions
3
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Poppies - Connotations of death
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“Spasms of paper red”
Beauty of a poppy corrupted with militaristic language
Narrator is fearful (foreshadowing) of son’s fate
Spasms connote injury
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Poppies - Quote to show loss
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“After you’d gone”
Ambiguous - is ‘gone’ a euphemism for death?
