poppies

• "on reaching the top of the hill I traced/ the inscriptions on the war memorial, / leaned against it like a wishbone"


  POPPIES

  • metaphor
  • similie
  • climbing over the hill is a metaphor for her struggle to deal with the grief of sending her son to war.
• Synthetic polymers


  • nylon, polyethylene, polyester, Teflon, epoxy