Poppies

Question 1

Doe sthe poem have a rhyme scheme

Answer 1

The poem is written in free verse (no metre or rhyming) with lots of enjambment (sentences that flow over lines) and caesura (breaks in lines).
The stanzas are also different lengths.
This could reflect the way the mother’s thoughts and emotions cannot be ordered and contained.

Question 2

Dramatic monouluge

Answer 2

The poem is a dramatic monologue (form of poetry where an imagined speaker addresses a silent audience).
The poem uses a direct address to show the strength of the mother’s feelings towards her son and to elicit (get) sympathy from the reader.

Question 3

Three days before armestice sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves

Answer 3

Rpresents single soilder but ce,eteries preprsent the entire lot

Question 4

P pinned one onto your lapel

Answer 4

Forshadow that she will place on herself

Your shows intamcy

Question 5

Crimped petals

Answer 5

Shows how war damages pepple wether they are a soilder or innonce

Question 6

Spasms of paper red

Answer 6

Personification
Spasms server stabs of pains
Red refers to the blood and injury itself

Question 7

Disruptin a blockade

Answer 7

Blockade refering to milatary as a barrier between the two

Question 8

I was brave

Answer 8

Role revers as the soilder is imagined as brave