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Summary Poppies Poem Analysis
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Poppies – Jane Weir"Poppies" by Jane Weir is a poignant and thought-provoking poem
that explores themes of war, loss, and grief. The poem is written from
the perspective of a mother whose son has gone off to fight in a war.
The title, "Poppies," refers to the red poppy flowers often associated
with remembrance and commemoration of soldiers who have died in
conflicts.
'Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias
binding around your blazer'
Semantic field of pain conveyed through the 'spasms of paper
red.' it conveys her physical pain at saying goodbye to her son
but hints at the possibility of his pain in death, as 'red' is a
connotes blood. This means that at the moment of pinning the
poppy to his blazer, she is imagining his eventual death.
Similarly, the lexeme 'blockade' is suggestive of war as it is a
maneuver in the war where you could block supplies coming to
the enemy. But it also links to context as Weir has included the
vocabulary of textiles.
Next, we can see where the embroidery is, which is the
‘binding’ around the 'blazer.’ The lexeme 'blazer' is not a
soldier’s uniform but is a school uniform or it is a formal type of
clothing that you would wear at an important place, which
suggests that her son is now going to school or to university.
Contextually, because Weir didn't have her son going to war,
she is imagining the experience of a sending a child to war.
'After you'd gone I went into your bedroom released a songbird
from its cage'
An interpretation of this metaphor is that the son is the
'songbird' who has been trapped in the cage of the family home
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