Poppies Flashcards
(14 cards)
“pinned _ _ _ _”
“pinned one onto your lapel”
“sellotape _ _ _ hand”
“sellotape bandaged around my hand”
“_ down _ _ untucked _ “
“smoothed down your shirts untucked collar”
“went _ _ _”
“went into your bedroom”
“_ _ _ when _ _ little”
“like we did when you were little”
“steeling _ _ _ my _”
“steeling the softening of my face”
“all my world _ _ _ _ _”
“all my world flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
“releasing _ _ _ _ cage”
“releasing a songbird from its cage”
“my _ busy”
“my stomach busy”
“hoping _ _ _ _ voice”
“hoping to hear your playground voice”
context in poppies
-conflict is deliberately ambiguous to give poem a timeless relevance
-hint of critical tone about how soldiers can become intoxicated by glamour of military
form/ structure in poppies
-elegy- poem of mourning
-free verse- stream of consciousness
-no rhyme scheme- melancholic
-caesura- cant speak fluently as she is trying to hold it together but is breaking inside
contrasting semantic fields of;
-home, bedroom
-war/injury
desolate definition
feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness
