WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Write a diary entry (at least 8 lines) to describe the mother’s thoughts feelings on the day that she sends her son off to war. Poem: Poppies by Jane Weir

All the Best

Explanation:

Poppies is a 21st century poem by the Anglo-Italian poet Jane Weir. Weir was born in Italy in 1963 and grew up in Italy and Manchester.

Poppies was her response to a commission for war poems by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. This, and nine other poems, appeared in The Guardian newspaper in 2009. Her poem was a response to the losses already suffered during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She felt, as the mother of two teenage boys, that speaking from a mother’s perspective about loss would be powerful. She was right – her poem struck a nerve with many mothers who had lost their children during the conflict. Many people from across Europe contacted her to tell her about how the poem had struck them. She has since said that she was thinking specifically of Susan Owen (mother of the World War I poet, Wilfred Owen) when writing this piece.