🌹 poppies quotes

Question 1

• poppies
• alluded to Jesus’ thorn crown which represents son’s sacrifice

Answer 1

‘run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair.’

Question 2

• poppies
• personification of the words?
• speak softly and holds tears to keep composure

Answer 2

‘All my words / flattened, rolled, turned into felt // slowing melting’

Question 3

• poppies
• simile
• taking son to heaven while walking with coffin
• outpouring emotion by the narrator

Answer 3

‘the world overflowing / like a treasure chest’

Question 4

• poppies
• metaphor
• son leaving to be free but in danger
• mother is releasing her bottled up emotions
• dove is symbol for peace and new life
• foreshadow sth bad as it is only one dove, isolation and broken hope

Answer 4

‘released a song bird from its cage / Later a single dove flew from the pear tree’

Question 5

• poppies
• sad metaphor
• misses the timew when her son was still little and playing in the playground, all the memories are flooding back to her
• links leaving the army with leaving for school

Answer 5

‘I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’