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Me at 2am

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'Before' - emphasises between national and personal mourning and rememberance

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Caesuras throughout poppies represent the mothers inability to control her emotions.  It shows everything is hard to process for her and represents the words getting stuck in her throat

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Poem ends on a positive note despite the threats of death, the city is still associated with sunlight, just as it is at the end of the first two stanzas

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negativity caused by humans

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“Death and my shadow”
- Can be foreshadowing her own death
- Can be her returning to the city but she’s being persecuted and surrounded by people which once considered her as their own
- Sacrificing herself to her positive memories to this city
Links to all of the themes

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Implies that she can’t ever revisit the place, therefore she can only view the city through rose tinted glasses of her own mind

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I have no passport
Shows she is trapped and can’t escape

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"Your playground voice catching the wind" the word "playground" suggests innocence as it links to the idea of a child, and is still holding onto the idea she must keep him safe

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The city is personified, the “white plane” could represent the speakers memories

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'Like a treasure chest' - children playing and scavenging. 'Treasure' - pirate which is an inspiration for young boys

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‘As time rolls it’s tanks” tells us that time is personified as an enemy to her, even though it’s the enemy it won’t effect the poets good memories.

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‘Spasms of paper red’
The speaker is really talking about a poppy, however it creates and image of an injured body for the reader, it could suggest that poppies and remembrance bring about pain and suffering to the speaker. Additionally ‘spasms’ are uncontrollable which could either suggest that the pain the speaker feels is uncontrollable or the injuries her son went through in the war were uncontrollable

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-trademarked ?

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"I was brave" suggests mother asserting her bravery/ war imagery. With the idea of war imagery, it could be that she was fighting with her emotions, struggling to let go of her son.

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The emigree the negative “branded” is juxtaposed with a positive “impression of sunlight”. Branded also suggests a permanence to her view- it can’t change 

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The emigree the negative “branded” is juxtaposed with a positive “impression of sunlight”. Branded also suggests a permanence to her view- it can’t change 

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'Your' - personal and shows individuality and an identity.

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“Slowly melting” she’s unable to continue upholding the facade of her being “brave” as she begins to “melt” thus making the reader feel as though she’s not only physically wounded through the previous stanza but that she’s also mentally damaged as she’s unable to process life without her son

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‘There was once a country’
Suggests the opening of a story like her own country is something that it isn’t, it could also suggest severe loss .

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The country isn’t a good place anymore Sense of loss of the country's identity and her own. Her memories of childhood are tarnished

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“The bright, filled paperweight “
-Metaphor- recreates the idealized city that she remembers from her childhood on paper
- The memories have weight even though they are just written
- Oxymoron- paper encapsulates all of her memories
Links to childhood and loss

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“it tastes like sunglight” using metaphors and sense language to exaggerate the memory theme of freedom and now she could taste the “sunlight” which could be seen as a metaphor of hope

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Your playground voice implies that it is a personal memory, through the personal pronoun “your” implies that her memories are solidified in her mind and she doesn’t want to get rid of them Childhood/Loss

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‘Treasure chest’ this simile shows the word from the sons perspective, this makes it sound exciting and something that he wants to find for himself

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"There was once a country,  I left it as a child"
Ambiguous noun "a country" - suggests many emigrees around the world. Memory of "child" and the metaphor of "sunlight clear" implies light and fondness. "Sunlight clear" also implies light under God, and how childhood innocence is ruined by war.

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“But my memory of it is sunlight clear” shows she remembers it well and the word sunlight may show she has hope

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'Your playground voice' - memory of child going to school, contrasting with the voice he is going to have whilst fighting.

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The worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view”

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The worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view”

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All she wants to remember about it are the good things