Poppies Quotes

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" crimped petals"<< torn poppy; war damages people, irony, foreshadows her sons death

"spasms of paper red"<< violent death, blood & violence

"sellotape bandaged"<< reference to war injuries

"steeled, the softening of my face"<< juxtaposition shows her brave face is opposite to her true feelings

"flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting"<< quadruple emphasises mixed emotions

" after you've gone"<< emptiness, permanently gone

"spasms","disrupting""blockade"<< semantic field of the violence of war

STRUCTURE: caesuras implies the speaker is trying to contain her feelings

WRRITERS INTENTION: criticises conflict, doesn't only affect individuals involved