1
Q
Poet
A
Jane Weir
2
Q
Key Quotes
A
“I went into your bedroom, released a song brird from its cage”
“I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice”
3
Q
Form
A
First-person narrative
No regular rhythm/rhyme scheme (mother’s thoughts and memories)
Long sentences and enjambment = narrator absorbed in own memoreies
Caesurae = tries to hold her emotions together
4
Q
Language
A
War imagery, “Armistice Sunday”, “war memorial”
5
Q
Themes
A
Effect of conflict
Loss and absence
Memory
6
Q
Context
A
WW1
3 days before Rememberance Day (Armistice Sunday)
7
Q
Structure
A
Chronological order
Time frame is ambigious (memories are intertwined)
