poppies
- Created by: ELM
- Created on: 27-04-15 18:01
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- poppies
- overview
- its a monologue and reads like a story , where a mother is grieving for he loss of her soldier son.
- she looks back to his childhood and remembers his excitement for life ahead, he is killed in battle tho and
- at the end she is drawn to the war memorial and wants to hear his voice again.
- structure and form
- free verse - to capture the thoughts of the mother as they crowed her mind.
- 4 stanzas, 2 at the end and 3 linked by enjambrment to create pause
- "slowly melting" felt dissolves and can be reformed just as she is trying to do, find a way to carry on.
- language and imagery
- poppies is a symbol of remembrance she remember time when she pinned a poppy on her son, " i pinned one on your lapel"
- spazams of paper red suggest her son died a tragic death red= death
- uses textile images "crimped" - jagged edges nd also means a military term coheresed / forced into the army.
- "like a wishbone" - wishing he was still alive the bond between mother and son has been broken.
- written from a woman's perspective hence the textile imagery
- overview
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