poppies

• what does it revolve around

  mothers recollection of her sons childhood and his implied death in conflict
• i pinned one onto your label ... around your blazer

  asyndetic list highlights the detail of her recollection shows his importance to her

  crimped details creates a vivid shape to show her vivid memory

  spasms of paper red - imply blood flow , war and death

  blazer - suggest uniformity and military uniform - shows the maturing of the children and further highlights the implied death

  blockade - metaphor could suggest the growing distance between mother and son
• all my words flattened,rolled,turned into felt,slowly melting

  asyndetic list reflects the emotions she has and shows the drawn out effects of war

  no control of her emotions at the time

  caesura breaks up the speach could mimic tears as she momentaroly pauses
• ending- i listened,hoping to hear your playground voice catching in the wind 


  wishes he was a child and can have control over him once again

  fond memories of her son that are precious to her

  sound imagery to recreate past feelings when her child was young

  hoping - finding it difficult to relieve her of the emotions
• released a songbird from its cage

  imagery helps the reader to imagine that the mother is having to open a cage and release a vunerable bird symbolises her son and the cage symbolises their home