Poppies

Question 1

‘The _____ __________ like a ________ chest….. you ____ away _________’

Answer 1

‘The world overflowing like a treasure chest… you were away, intoxicated
- Simile shows the growth of her son = treasure chest has connotations of a child and intoxicated (drunk) has adult meaning
- Shows the innocent excitement of the soldier to go to war = the deceptiveness of patriotism
- How quick the change was

Question 2

‘hoping to ____ your ________ _____ catching on ___ ____’

Answer 2

‘Hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’
- The mother hoping her son will return
- An aural memory (hearing/sound) to emphasise her feeling of loss (effects of conflict)
- Suggests the son died in battle
- Effects of the deceptiveness of patriotism

Question 3

‘_______ __ paper red, disrupting _ _______….around your ______’

Answer 3

‘spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade…. around your blazer’
- spasms = involuntary muscular action, blockade = actively preventing a country from receiving or sending supplies
-‘spasms of paper red on a blockade’ could be a description for a soldier killed in action.
- There’s fear for the mother adding the poppy, she wants to keep the blazer simplistic like when he was a child and doesn’t feel right sending him away to a place of pain
- colour imagery of red = blood, pain and suffering