🔥 in flanders field

Task 1: Learn

1. What kind of a poem is ‘In Flanders Field’?

It’s non-fiction, it has verses, and it also rhymes. It also might be a randeau poem.

2. What is a randeau? Find from the world wide web an example of a randeau.

A poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain.

3. When was Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae inspired to write the poem? What main event was happening then? The poem was written in 1915, and the main event during that time was the World War 1.

4. How many years is it since WWI?

The war started in 1914 and ended in 1918 so if the question was how long since the war started it wold 100 years, but it has been 96 years since World War 1 ended.

5. In whose honour was the poem written?

The poem was written for Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who was killed on the 2nd of May 1915

6. What does the reference to the red poppy symbolise? Read here

In Flanders Field you could find poppys blooming, and that is where the soldiers who died were buried. And the poppy is a symbol of remembrance.