It is the same old druid Time as ever, The word poppy has been repeated twice, which Only a live thing leaps my hand, means it is repetition and was used to emphasize their A queer sardonic rat, significance in the poem. The poppies are grown out of As I pull the parapet’s poppy battlefields after war. The more poppies the more To stick behind my ear. dead soldiers, so the repetition is said to emphasize Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew the amount of deaths and how normal it is in war. Your cosmopolitan sympathies. Now you have touched this English hand You will do the same to a German Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure The words that have been highlighted are To cross the sleeping green between. personification. The rat has been personified by It seems you inwardly grin as you pass the soldier as a care free rat in war. These traits Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes, which have made the soldier jealous as he does Less chanced than you for life, not have that freedom. Bonds to the whims of murder, Sprawled in the bowels of the earth, The torn fields of France. ‘Sleeping Green’ is a metaphor. Usually associated as What do you see in our eyes being a calm and relaxing place, but is interpreted as At the shrieking iron and flame the bodies of dead soldiers. Hurled through still heavens? What quaver—what heart aghast? Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins ‘Drop and ever dropping’ is symbolism. It is Drop, and are ever dropping; referring to the poppies ‘dropping and ever But mine in my ear is safe— dropping’ . The poppies symbolises soldiers and Just a little white with the dust. then follows by them dropping meaning they died and keep dying. This imagery is used for the reader/audience to understand the horrific sights and feelings that the soldiers experienced.