the narrator is acting bravely by carrying on with her daily lifedespite what she is suffering. The narrator is also brave because despite her fear of losing her son to war, she still lets him go.
Sellotape bandaged around my hand
The verb 'bandaged' acts in a metaphorical way: it could be describing how the speaker feels emotionallywounded and/or another hint that her son has been wounded or killed in service.
constant war imagery
graze my nose
a phrase in which maternal affection is juxtaposed against the injury-like connotationsof “graze”. Throughout the poem, Weir shows how war prevents people from having a normal domestic life.
written in 2009
the poem focuses on the idea of poppies symbolising a memory
