In Flanders Fields
Poppies and trenches
"In Flanders Fields" is a 1915 war poem by Canadian physician John McCrae, written during the Second Battle of Ypres.
The poem speaks from the perspective of soldiers buried among the red poppies of Belgian battlefields, urging the living to continue the fight.
It became the most famous poem of World War I and established the poppy as a symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers: We wear poppies on Remembrance Day because of "In Flanders Fields".
- war poemVerse about armed conflict
- poppyScarlet bloom, opium source
- red poppyCrimson bloom symbolizing sacrifice
- Remembrance DayMemorial for fallen soldiers
- lest we forgetMemorial exhortation against forgetting
trench · no man's land · cross · World War I · elegy · armistice · lark · cenotaph · stanza · shell · mud · commemoration · barbed · Ypres · sacrifice · dawn · torch · meadow
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