poppies- jane weir

• "spasms of paper red" -language of potential injury
• "sellotape bandaged around my hand" -lang of injury -homely domestic feel
• "steeled the softening of my face" -juxtapose inner conflict
• "resisted the urge to run my fingers through your hair" -intimate -maternal love
• "all my words flattened, turned to felt" -semantic field of textiles
• "world overflowing like a treasure chest" -new beginnings
• "released a song bird from its cage" -bittersweet partings
• "a dove pulled freely against the sky" -biblical language -hopefulness through war
• "hoping to hear your playground voice on the wind" -melancholic quality
• themes: -partings -war -remorse
• language: -semantic field of textiles -merging of tactile and intactile
• tone: -melancholic -reminiscient
• context: -doesnt specify which war makes it a universal experience