Statistics for poppies. Jane Weir

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