Poppies - Jane Weir

‘three days before armistice day’

• use of temporal deixis establishes theme of remembrance from start

‘I pinned one onto your label, crimped petals, spasms of paper red…blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer’

• use of asyndetic listing shows how detailed the memory is to the narrator

• ‘b’ - plosive alliteration

• ‘blazer’ - part of a soldier’s uniform but also reminsicent on his childhood - schoolboy uniform

• contrasts to sibilance of ‘s’ in 2nd stanza

‘a song bird from its cage … a single dove flew form the pear’

• symbol of peace might be ironically contrasting with potential death due to war

  • potential sacrifice viewed through positive lens

  • dove - sign of peace

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