poppies

Question 1

contexts poppies- textiles

Answer 1

Weir was a textile designer as well which explains her use of related imagery

Question 2

poppies context- children and war

Answer 2

Weir had 2 sons which may have influenced her desire explore what caused young boys to go to war and fight

Question 3

form of poppies

Answer 3

dramatic monologue, second person narrative to which the son never replies, implying he is no longer there (death, loss)
this causes the listener to focus on the feeling of the mother

Question 4

structure- free verse and enjambment

Answer 4

free verse- outpouring of emotion
- lack of control over emotions

enjambment- sentences feel fragmented (incomplete memories)

Question 5

poppies- ‘the world overflowing like a treasure chest’

Answer 5

-outpouring of positive emotions juxtaposes the poems sad theme of loss

reminiscing

Question 6

i pinned… blazer

Answer 6

i pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer

(asyndetic list, shows how detailed the memory is to the narrator)

Question 7

three days …

Answer 7

three days before armistice sunday

(temporal deixis, establishes a theme of remembrance from the start and memory)

Question 8

i listened… on the wind

Answer 8

i listened hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind

sad meta[hor, connotations of childhood and innocence

Question 9

i wanted to… my nose across the tip of your nose

Answer 9

graze

(tactile imagery, word choice implies sad undertones to the happy memories)

maternal affection juxtaposed with the injury-like connotations of ‘graze’

Question 11

declarative sentence in poppies

Answer 11

i was brave