Poppies Flashcards
Sir quote, Types of material folds
“Tucks, darts, pleats”
Positive simile showing the sons excitment and the mothers sadness
“the world overflowing
like a treasure chest. A split second
and you were away, intoxicated
A metaphor of her letting her son go
“Released a song bird from it’s cage”
Showing how the mother misses the son and wishes for his saftey
What does the last word mean?
“Lent against it like a wishbone”
A wishbone is a thing for coupels which they break and both get 1 half of
Makes the mothers loss univercal
“Hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”
Last line
Form and Structure
First person narative showing the mother’s emotions
No regular rhymn scheem or rhythm making it feel like a memory or thought
The long sentences and enjarbment shows how she is trapped and how her emotions can’t escape
However the caesura shows that she is attempting to controll her emotions
Lots of war imagey representing the son’s new life
We don’t know wether the son is dead or alive
It has domestic maternal imagry
Feeling and Attitudes
Loss of a son
Fear for her son
Freedom (the son)
Showing the finality of death?
Shown by the Caesura
“individual war graves. Before…”
Semantic field of pain and suffering showing how the mother is emotionaly wounded or the son is phycicaly wounded
“Crimpled petals”
“Spasms (of paper) red”
Could represent gunshots?
Alliteration of Plosive sounds
“blockade
Of yellow bias binding around your blazer.”
Use of your makes the poem feel personal as if the narrator is speaking to the reader
End stop at the end of the stanza creates a feeling of controll
How do we see how her memories have taken controll of her
Second stanza enjarbment starts
Hinting of his danger at war/ that he is not a boy anymore
“gelled
Blackthorns of your hair. …”
Religious imagry of mourning/ peace
“Latter a single dove flew from the pair tree”
Hinting at the death of the son
“Sitting in the chirch yard walls”
Could suggest that she is visiting a cemetary
She also has no recolection of how she got there (she was talking about his bedroom and then she was in the church) could be forgetting hings because of her mourning
Who wrote the poem?
Jane Weir
