Study "In Flander Fields"
STUDY ‘In Flanders Fields’
The writer, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, was a Canadian poet, physician, author and soldier (doctor) during the first World War. He was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery and was in charge of a field hospital during the Second battle of Ypres in 1915. He was born on the 30th of Novemver 1872 and died on the 28 of January 1918 (because of pneumonia) , close to the end of the war.
John McCrae wrote his well-known poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ in the first person as if a soldier who is buried in a cemetary marked by the crosses of the graves of his fallen comrades, is telling the poem or wrote it. He feels one of them. From within his grave he addresses his fellow soldiers, who are still alive. He opposes life (the red poppies, a lark singing) to his own fate and that of his fallen comrades. He reminds his living fellows that the dead too were once alive enjoying dawn, the setting of the sun and the feeling of love. He summons his comrades to continue the fight, they should keep the torch high and not break faith with their fallen friends. And the fallen shall not sleep because they are alive, within the peoples hearts and minds, within the poppies which grow in Flander Fields. So acutally this poem is about the soldiers who sacrificed their lifes during the war. A patriotic tone.
The poem consist of two parts. It is written in a lambic tetrameter ending in a unusual rhyme structure AABBCCC D in the first stanza. It ends with a 2 beat lambic verse: “In Flanders Fields”, which is repeated at the end of the poem.
The second stanza had a AABBAD rhyme structure . In the first stanza the speaker describes the situation since he is dead now. In the second stanza he addresses his living fellow soldiers, telling them to continue the fight. Since the poem can be divided into an octet (8 lindes) and a sextet (6 lines) with a turning point in between the form of the poem reminds us of the sonnet form.
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The writer, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, was a Canadian poet, physician, author and soldier (doctor) during the first World War. He was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery and was in charge of a field hospital during the Second battle of Ypres in 1915. He was born on the 30th of Novemver 1872 and died on the 28 of January 1918 (because of pneumonia) , close to the end of the war.
John McCrae wrote his well-known poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ in the first person as if a soldier who is buried in a cemetary marked by the crosses of the graves of his fallen comrades, is telling the poem or wrote it. He feels one of them. From within his grave he addresses his fellow soldiers, who are still alive. He opposes life (the red poppies, a lark singing) to his own fate and that of his fallen comrades. He reminds his living fellows that the dead too were once alive enjoying dawn, the setting of the sun and the feeling of love. He summons his comrades to continue the fight, they should keep the torch high and not break faith with their fallen friends. And the fallen shall not sleep because they are alive, within the peoples hearts and minds, within the poppies which grow in Flander Fields. So acutally this poem is about the soldiers who sacrificed their lifes during the war. A patriotic tone.
The poem consist of two parts. It is written in a lambic tetrameter ending in a unusual rhyme structure AABBCCC D in the first stanza. It ends with a 2 beat lambic verse: “In Flanders Fields”, which is repeated at the end of the poem.
The second stanza had a AABBAD rhyme structure . In the first stanza the speaker describes the situation since he is dead now. In the second stanza he addresses his living fellow soldiers, telling them to continue the fight. Since the poem can be divided into an octet (8 lindes) and a sextet (6 lines) with a turning point in between the form of the poem reminds us of the sonnet form.
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