Poppies
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 24-05-18 11:04
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- Poppies
- Form
- First person and direct address
- Connectives
- Unclear time frame
- Context
- Commissioned by Carol Ann Duffy in response to present day conflicts
- Weir wanted to let the reader decide for themselves what the poem was about
- Quotes
- "before Armistice Sunday...before you left"
- "individual war graves"
- "spasms of paper red"
- "disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer"
- "run my fingers around the gelled blackthorns of your hair"
- "released a song bird from its cage"
- "leaned against it like a wishbone"
- "the world overflowing like a treasure chest"
- "my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats"
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