POPPIES IN JULY

Question 1

POPPIES

Answer 1

loaded with ideological significance concerning GENDER and WOMANHOOD

Question 2

THIS POEM

Answer 2

explores EXISTENCE and ESSENCE

Question 3

STRUCTURE

Answer 3

8 UNRHYMING COUPLETS- varied in formation.
REFLECTS the CONFLICT between LIBERATION and RESTRICTION

Question 4

‘hell flames’

Answer 4

highlights how the expectation the poppies are associated with TORMENT HER.

Question 5

use of CAESURAS

Answer 5

symbolically reveals her emotion- detachment from the social expectations demanded by the poppies

Question 6

‘exhausts me’

Answer 6

expectation demanded of her are too demanding

Question 7

‘Little bloody skirts!’

Answer 7

resentment is foregrounded by the EXPLETIVE but COMPUNDED by the EXCLAMATION

Question 8

‘where are your opiates?’

Answer 8

yeans for the quality of the poppy that induces sleep rather than its reminder of gender expectations

Question 9

‘colourless.Colourless’

Answer 9

repetition- reinforces PLATH’S desire to be in a state of nothingness.