Power and Conflict poetry

Poppies by Jane Weir

Language

"the gelled blackthorns of your hair"

allude to Jesus

more like a sacrifice, war is dishonourable?

Form

no rhyme scheme apart from association with childhood "nose" and "Eskimos"

Simpler when he was a child, war just creates a chaos of emotions.

Structure

Written in all three tenses, grief is always there?

"poppies had"

"this is where"

Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland

Language

"...little boats/strung out like bunting"

bunting is typically associated with a celebration

simile sounds homely and pretty, exaggerates how horrific the pilot's actual situation, a suicide mission, was.

Structure

First five stanzas consist of one sentence, implies the pilot's long dilemma to turn back though it would be seen as dishonourable. the first sentence symbolises that that was where the flight should have ended however he turned back, much to his family's disgust.

Form

3rd person but from the daughters perspective, only hear her voice.Implies that afterwards, their relationship had distance?

War photographer by Carol Ann Duffy

Language

"spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"

images filled with immense pain. Ordered rows symbolise the mass graves but also perhaps some structure to the…