Big Poppy Themes

"Big Poppy" hinges on temporality, in a lot of ways. What do we mean by that? Well, a lot of what gets the speaker so riled up about this flower is not only that it's very pretty, but also that it'...

Even though there are no actual people in this poem, there's one thing that we shouldn't ever forget about any piece of writing, and that's the speaker. Just by virtue of being written down on the...

The poppy in "Big Poppy" is very clearly a woman. Since the poppy is so intensely personified throughout the piece, there's a lot going on here that deals with the idea of women and sexuality, wome...

Closely related to the idea of transience and temporality that's also a theme in "Big Poppy," death plays a huge part in creating the world in which this poem operates – a world in which mort...

Hello, sensual thematics! Between the flower and the bee in "Big Poppy," we have ourselves a couple. This is kind of a strange thing – after all, a flower and a bee can't mate, and this is no...