Poppies

Question 1

Poppies

_______ of paper ____,

Answer 1

Spasms of paper red,

Reader think of a injured body. Paper is easily broken. Red connotations of blood war death and also love ( from the ones left behind)

Question 2

Poppies

Disrupting a ___________
of yellow bias _______ around your ________.

Answer 2

Disrupting a blockade
of yellow bias binding around your blazer.

Blockade- feels shut out from sons life. Military term. Emotional blocking.
She remembers small things implying that her son is dead or gone. bias binding is a difficult as you stretch the fabric along the bias. So it show how the memories are stretching here out of place

Question 3

Poppies

Your ________ voice catching on the _____.

Answer 3

Your playground voice catching on the wind

Links going to join the army with leaving to go to school. The wind is taking his soul away to heaven

Question 4

Poppies

_________ __________ round my hand,

Answer 4

Sellotape bandaged round my hand,

Image of wounded foreshadow what might happen to her son. Emotionally wounded.

Question 5

Poppies

I ______,
The inscription on the ______ _______,

Answer 5

I traced,
the inscriptions on the war memorial,

Touch is important memorial is solid unlike wishes and memories. Reminder of the risks her son faces