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poppies. Jane Weir - Statistics
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| what day is mentioned in the poem | armistice day | 100%
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| what does the caesura do | separates the before and after of war | 100%
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| how | acts brave by carrying on her life while son not there, she was brave to let him go | 0%
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| what is a quote which shows this being celebrated | 'Before you left, I pinned one onto your lapel' | 0%
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| examples? | 'blockade' 'reinforcements' 'bandaged' | 0%
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| the poem starts showing the son celebrating armistice sunday which shows what | cruel cyclic nature of war | 0%
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| what Is the structure used here | cyclical structure | 0%
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| what is the form of the poem | dramatic monologue | 0%
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| what is used In the poem | enjambent | 0%
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| what person does the speaker speak in | first person, as though she is talking to her son | 0%
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| what verse is the poem written in | free verse | 0%
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| what is the final line of the poem | 'hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind' | 0%
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| what quote could be a biblical reference | 'I resisted the urge to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair' | 0%
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| what quote shows unconventional bravery | ' I was brave' | 0%
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| what is there a semantic field of | military language | 0%
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| what does it also show | mothers outpouring of emotion and lack of control over them | 0%
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| what does this show | mothers uncensored thoughts | 0%
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| is she responded to, what does this show | no, shows that the son has died or been lost | 0%
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| give an example | 'rolled, turned into felt / slowly melting' | 0%
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| what does this show | she will forever long for her son to return | 0%
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| how? | similar to Jesus crown of thorns, mother thinks her son was an unnecessary sacrifice | 0%
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| how does the mother describe the poppies | 'spasms of paper red' | 0%
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| what does this show | the speakers incomplete memories, they are fragmented | 0%
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| this could mean | the speakers thoughts oh her son at war are all consuming | 0%
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| why does weir use many time connectives | they join together all the speakers memories of her son | 0%
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| what tone is the poem written in at the start | tone of rememberence | 0%
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| this may be deliberately unclear why | to portray the unreliability of memories | 0%
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