ENG 4339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Remembrance Day, Sibilant, Scandinavian Mountains
Document Summary
In "poppies", weir is comparing the tranquillity of nature with the carnage of war. The poem shows how the soldiers sacriiced their life to ransom the hills of france; thus showing how france"s freedom was paid by the blood of these young men. Poppies are used as a symbol of both war and sacriice. The efect of this is to help the reader remember the people who sacriiced their lives for our freedom. Furthermore, the presence of poppies gives the poem muliple meanings and methods of interpretaion. Poppies can be seen to symbolise death, eternal sleep or remembrance. All three of these can be applied to the poem. The poem expresses the feelings a mother has about the death of her son in a war far away. The form of the poem appears to be strong and regular. This shows that the narrator is trying to hold in the emoions that have been sirred up by the sight of poppies.
