Poppies

Question 1

Poppies:

Context?

Answer 1

• 2005
• Jane Weir

• Poet laureate
- Background in textiles & sewing
• No war experience
• Two sons
• Wanted to it to relate to all mothers
- Armistice Sunday = marked end of WW1 in 1918

Question 2

Poppies:

Subject?

Answer 2

Universal experience of having to send your child away to school (mirrors war)

Question 3

Poppies:

Form?

Structure?

Answer 3

Free verse

Question 4

Poppies:

Tone?

Rhyme & rhythm?

Answer 4

• No rhythm
• Internal rhyme

Question 5

Poppies:

Key quotes?

Answer 5

“3 days before armistice Sunday”

“Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade”

“Sellotape bandaged around my hand”

“Gelled back thorns of your hair”

“All my words flattened, rolled, and turned to felt”

“After you’d gone… I released a song bird from its cage”

“My stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats”

“Inscriptions on the war memorial”

“The force pulled freely against the sky”

“Hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind”