poppies for and structure
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- Created on: 25-10-18 21:39
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- Poppies - form and structure
- structure
- "slowly melting"- enjambment supports idea of words joining together in melting
- the use of caesura in 19 lines out of 35 have breaks in the middle of the lines - marked by commas or more strongly by full-stops. shows how the speaker has stopped to think
- shows the inner emotion of narrator who tries to be calm but is breaking in sadness inside.
- first person and direct address. there is also use of second person.
- use of past and present tense
- form
- The poem appears to have a strong, regular sense of form. There are four clear stanzas, the first and last with six lines, the second with 11 and the third 12.
- stanzas in two different lengths +lines of around 10 syllables = control without rigidity, creating sense of natural speech.
- 4 clear stanzas shows how the mother has tried to stay strong and move forward.
- dramatic monologue shows loneliness and loss
- the rhyme would seem to lively in a solemn piece about love and loss
- free verse
- The non-chronological structure shows how the mother is remembering her sons past. the shift in time may reflect the different ways a mother remembers her son.
- structure
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