poppies

Question 1

spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade of yellow binding around your blazer

Answer 1

spasm semantic field of pain conveys her physical pain of saying good bye to her son also hints to the possibility of his pain in death red symbolic of blood

Question 2

blazer

Answer 2

not a soldier uniform but a school boys uniform
blazer if u dress formally
so going to school or university

Question 3

blockade

Answer 3

sticking and Pattons made in clothes
also a manoover in Warwick block supplies going to the enemy language is suggestive of war

Question 4

2 meaning

Answer 4

grief of son going to war and diving
grief of son leaving the nest
sons desparate to get away and she is part of the reason that he want to leave

Question 5

blackthorns of ur hair all my words flattened rolled turned into felt

Answer 5

metaphor nature suggesting his purity
thong he has picked a hairstyle the would deliberately discourage her from touching it
metaphor of how he is prickly towards her
to cut bonds of mother hood
opresive mother

Question 6

felt

Answer 6

her language whs rolled up and flattened and layers
reminder us of feeling
not reviewing her true emotions

Question 7

felt and blackthorns

Answer 7

opposites son says it how it is
mother suppresses her feelings

Question 8

slowly melting

Answer 8

felt is slowly melting
her feelings
or her word have no meanings
son simply doesn’t understand her

Question 9

threw it open the world overflowing like a treasure chest

Answer 9

simile letting him go offer him a great treasure of the life outside
this simile breaker the idea that it is a war poem as a war is not a treasure chest of opportunities
letting her son free in order to have better experiences him parting causes her feel pain melt

Question 10

after you’d gone I went into your bedroom released a song bird from its cage

Answer 10

son is the song bird he is trapped by his mothers love -find his own song
gave the poet a new identity she is now the song bird free to write her own song grateful for the emotion as it has given depth to her bird song

Question 11

direct adress

Answer 11

directly addressing her son
getting him to look back on his and her emotions on the day he left expression of her love not needed for him to be dead

Question 12

the dove pulled freely against the sky an ornamental stitch I listened hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind

Answer 12

dove symbol of piece
symbolic of her sons sole now being free
reminds us of the song bird both of them are free
suggest the young child that she want to return
memories of when he was a child he is trying to capture
mother hood

Question 13

form

Answer 13

no form
monolog

Question 14

structure

Answer 14

convey her feelings -being free
christian allusion noah ack no tragedy ironically desperate for happy ness