poppies content and context

Question 1

poppies content

Answer 1

effects of conflict
loss and absence
identity

loss, fear

form of dramatic monologue

elegy (poem of mourning/regret)

a mother describes her son leaving home to join the army, she is dear giving getting him ready to leave by helping him smarten his uniform.

after he leaves she goes to places that remind her of him

Question 2

jane weir
(1963-)

Answer 2

poppies

semantic field used - she puts lots of references to clothes in her poem because she was a seamstress