Poppies - SPITS Breakdown
This is resource is designed to help with the SPITS paragraphing structure used in the exam. If you are not familier with this method it is as follows:
S - Subject matter
P - Purpose
I - Identify (mood, theme etc.)
T - Technique
S - Summarise
I hope this helps and good luck in your exams.
- Created by: AmyBirch01
- Created on: 13-11-17 16:20
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- Poppies
- S
- Mother of a soldier
- Ends at a memorial - he is either dead or not home yet.
- Shows that she misses him.
- Based around the idea of poppies & memory.
- P
- To show that war affects everyone, not just those who go away to fight.
- Highlight the range of emotions a mother can feel when her son leaves.
- Deeper level of empathy between what was and what now is their relationship.
- I
- Conflict
- Pride & sadness
- Perspective of those left behind.
- T
- Metaphor
- "Released a song bird from its cage."
- Tricolon
- "flattened, rolled turned into felt"
- Analepsis
- "play at Eskimos like we did when you were little"
- Metaphor
- S
- Poppies looks at the effect of war on those left behind.
- It uses feminine imagery to drive home the fact that this is from a womans perspective.
- Women are not usually explored in military poems. It gives a voice to those who feel the don't have one always.
- S
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