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The Prelude is a poem which explores the power of experiences and our inability to forget them as they are “huge”. Similarly Poppies also explores the experiences of the speaker and her inability to move on from the memories of her son who she has lost at war, however it differs in that Poppies is from the perspective of something outwith the main experience(that of war) thus highlighting the many different people that are affected by an experience that they are not even present at, whereas The Prelude is focused on one person’s experience and their internal conflicts and journey.

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