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‘Moon on the Tides’ Anthology
Lesson Objec7ves: • To iden7fy the key aspects of structure and
form used to convey meaning
‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir
Poppies: a symbol of …?
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The human cost of war
• A series of numbers rela0ng to recent conflicts will appear on the following slides.
• Your task, as a group, is to suggest what you think the numbers might represent.
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Lies, damn lies and sta7s7cs
94,279 • Es0mated number of civilians who have been killed in Iraq due to violence between the beginning of the war in 2003 and 18 October 2009 Source: iraqbodycount.org
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£3.2 billion
• Cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan to Britain (up to March 2008) Source: 10 March 2008, 0mesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/ar0cle3522202.ece
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1,500
• Es0mated civilian casual0es in war in Afghanistan (January–August 2009) Source: UN/wikipedia
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44 and 79
• Life expectancy in Afghanistan (44) compared to life expectancy in Britain (79) Sources: Unicef and Wikipedia
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56 • Percentage of people in a UK poll who said they were against the current war in Afghanistan (in October 2009)
Source: BBC News 12 October 2009
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414 • Number of Bri0sh servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan (2002–October 2009) Source: guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/17/afghanistan-‐casual0es-‐dead-‐wounded-‐bri0sh-‐data
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50–70 million
• Total es0mated dead as a consequence of World War Two Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casual0es
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The human cost of conflict in ‘Poppies’
• Now look at the poem, and select any quota0ons that you feel suggest the speaker’s sense of loss or pain.
• Look at how the son is presented. Which words convey an impression of his vulnerability or naivety, for example?
• Why do you think Weir uses these words?
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What is this poem …? A mother’s internal monologue as she sends her son (a
soldier) off to war?
An elegy or lament (a poem of mourning,
grief or regret, usually associated with the death of someone)?
A narra7ve journey through a memory?
‘The poem takes the form of a drama7c monologue. Yet it is also an elegy or lament, and it is also a narra7ve, a journey through memory.’ (Jane Weir)
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