Poppies Flashcards
1
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“Three days before Armitice sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves” explained
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Symbolism= the poppy has symbolic links to violence death and memory. It is quite forebidding in this poem
2
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Language of conflict:
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‘Blockade’ ‘grazed’ ‘steeled’
3
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Point of poem
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The relationship in this poem provides a deeper level of empathy and the conflict between what was and what now is the relationship
4
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Evidence for point
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Stanza 1= pronouns “i” and “your” used emphasiases the speaker and subject
5
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“The church yad walls, my stomach busy making trucks, darts,pleats,hat-less”
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Listing= implies the awkward feeling of the mother trying to distract herself from grief
