poppies

• themes

  • remembrance
  • loss
  • suffering
  • fear
• context

  • jane weir
  • soldiers in afghanistan and iraq
  • lived in northern ireland during the troubles, 1980s
  • remembrance of sons who went to war
• quotes

  • spasms of paper red
  • released a song bird from it's cage
• structure

  • first person narrative
  • no rhyme scheme
  • enjambment
  • caesura
• compare to catrin