Poppies, Jane Weir
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- Created on: 07-02-23 20:10
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- Poppies Jane Weir
- Context
- Weir born in 1963. Mother English Father Italian.
- She is a textile artist as well as a poet and writer.
- The Poem refers to Armistice Sunday (the Sunday closest to 11th November), it is the anniversary of the truce that ended WW1.
- She is a textile artist as well as a poet and writer.
- Weir born in 1963. Mother English Father Italian.
- Form
- Stanzas in two different lengths adn lines of around 10 syllables = control without rigidity, creating sense of natural speech.
- "Slowly Melting"
- Enjambment supports idea of words joining together in melting
- Language
- "spasms of red"
- Pain related imagery, bloody wounds perhaps foreshadowing events or reflecting her fears.
- "had already been placed"
- Complete past tense prepares us for complex timelines/
- "blockade"/"reinforcements"
- Language from a military semantic field
- "split second"/"after/Later"
- Time markers used throughout poem to manage complex timelines
- "bandages"
- Connotations of injury or protecting herself like a boxer
- "the world overflowing like a treasure chest"
- Simile implies possibilities yet, he's heading off to war
- "released a song bird from its cage"
- metaphor for the mother's crying
- "spasms of red"
- Viewpoint
- "before you left"
- Untitled
- "before you left"
- Context
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