Literature - Poems
"Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer"
Poppies;
- "paper red" implies a poppy that you would wear to remember a dead soldier
- Motherly love, semantic field of pain
- Indicates her emotion when saying goodbye
- Suggestive of war
Who wrote poppies?
Jane Weir
Who wrote Kamikaze?
Beatrice Garland
Who wrote Ozymandias?
Percy Shelley
Who wrote My Last Duchess?
Robert Browning
What form is MLD + Poppies written in?
Dramatic monologue
"Blackthorns of your hair"
Poppies;
- Military hairstyle
- Metaphorical: The son may have been prickly and wanted to break away
- He perhaps felt oppresed by the overwhelming motherly love
"Slowly Melting"
Poppies;
- May be symbolic of her tears gushing down her face
- Maybe her words had no meaning
"Released a song bird from its cage"
Poppies;
- The son has found his own "song", the army
- Given the poet a new identity in letting go of the past
"Her father embarked at sunrise, with a flask of water, a samurai sword"
Kamikaze;
- Sibilance: sign of peace, father could be reflecting the peace in death
- "Sunrise": Double entendre, country of Japan + divinity in meeting God
- "Water": purify spiritually, alluding to Christian baptism
"A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous."
Kamikaze;
- Threatening, powerful image of nature
- Caesura, signaling its importance. The structure FORCES us to reflect
- Perhaps the realisation of how minute we are compared to nature.
"Till Gradually we learned to be silent"
Kamikaze;
- Totally unnatural for them
- Girl is reflecting back, perhaps reminiscing how her actions were wrong
- Volta, bringing a sense of monotony.