Poppies - Jane Weir
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1) The poem is about a mother grieving the loss of her son who went to war. 2) It describes her memories of him at different stages of his life in a non-chronological narrative structure that mirrors her grieving process. 3) The poem uses metaphors like felt and pleats to describe how the mother's pain and grief over her son's death is forming into a permanent loss.
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