Poppies

Question 1

quote 1

Answer 1

of yellow bias binding around your blazer.

Question 2

quote 2

Answer 2

steeled the softening/of my face. I wanted to graze my nose

Question 3

quote 3

Answer 3

After you’d gone i went into your bedroom,/released a song bird from its cage.

Question 4

context

Answer 4

-has two sons
-lived through troubles of 1980s
-poppies a symbol of remembrance
-published as ww1 fleeting from living memory
-textiles background and focuses on idea of designing contrasting the lack of control of war

Question 5

structure

Answer 5

-dramatic monologue personal emotions
-second person, directed at her son
-written in free verse with irregular stanza lengths, conversational and intimate
-extended metaphor parallels going to war to leaving for school