Poppies context Flashcards
1
Q
who wrote it
A
Jane Weir
2
Q
mother
A
mother of two boys, mother’s perspective of loss can be powerful
3
Q
textiles
A
she runs a textile design business making and selling clothes
4
Q
poppies
A
in Belgium, many soldiers died trenches WW1 and fields now covered in poppies - symbol to remember sacrifice
5
Q
textile vocabulary
military vocabulary
A
uses lots of vocab to do with making clothes: pleats, bias binding, darts
she knows lots about the military
6
Q
what is weir interested in
A
domestic experiences of women.
masculine experience of suffering in war and the effect on women
