Poppies Flashcards
“Armistice Sunday”
- sets up the tone of he poem
- impart of poppies - rememberance and death
“Crimped petals”
- foreshadowing a ruined poppy means ruined son
Blackthorns of your hair
Ambiguous phrase
- spiked hair
- metaphor for the way she is protecting her son from danger
- he’s prickly towards her as a young man and isn’t affectionate
All my words turned to felt
I recycled fabric made of lots of other substances easy to move a minute be like show she is broken woman sure she’s trying to fight her motion but she can’t
“Overflowing like of treasure chest “
Simile- he wants to experience the world independently suggest it’s going to make him rich in money terms of years and is excited about what he will witness has the irony as he dies
Hill
Metaphorical of a struggle
“Like a wishbone”
Simile-and shows she is fragile and broken leaning on her son-dependent on playground voice shows an image of innocent
“Dove”
Symbolism of the holy spirit love Fidelity forgiveness and hopefulness prior of mother to keep Son alive -ambiguous- am dying his soul being set free and her “Dove” the Son has died
Enjambment
Show cycle of children leaving home. Which is never ending and shows its continuous and avoidable
Is the past and present tense
Shows memories
Non-chronological order
Shows mother is remembering the past
Written in first and second person
Shows this shift in time shows the difference Waze she remembers this on and how she craves. Speaks directly to him. “You “-direct pronoun-addresses her son as if alive. Trying to keep the memory alive show she is fragile
