Poppies

Question 1

“Three days before Armitice sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves” explained

Answer 1

Symbolism= the poppy has symbolic links to violence death and memory. It is quite forebidding in this poem

Question 2

Language of conflict:

Answer 2

‘Blockade’ ‘grazed’ ‘steeled’

Question 3

Point of poem

Answer 3

The relationship in this poem provides a deeper level of empathy and the conflict between what was and what now is the relationship

Question 4

Evidence for point

Answer 4

Stanza 1= pronouns “i” and “your” used emphasiases the speaker and subject

Question 5

“The church yad walls, my stomach busy making trucks, darts,pleats,hat-less”

Answer 5

Listing= implies the awkward feeling of the mother trying to distract herself from grief