Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Flanderns Felder und andere Gedichte
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will enjoy this if you love war poetry, remembrance verse, short lyrics on death and rest, or the life stories of writers who also served as doctors and soldiers.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
A doctor sits in a hole at the foot of a canal bank in Flanders, treating the wounded while larks sing above the guns. Out of that moment comes one of the best-known poems of the First World War. In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems gathers the verse of John McCrae, a Canadian physician and soldier, with an essay on his life by his friend Sir Andrew Macphail. Start with the poppies, then follow the poet.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A doctor, a soldier and a poetFree
- 2The title poem was written under fire
- 3Soldiers, ships and battles in verse
- 4Poems of rest, comfort and the end of day
- 5Love, doubt and the world's goodness
- 6The man behind the poems, in Macphail's essay
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A doctor, a soldier and a poet
John McCrae was a physician, an artillery officer and a poet, and this book shows all three. It holds about thirty poems dated from 1894 to 1917, followed by an essay on his life by Sir Andrew Macphail. The title poem comes first.
Half the poems first appeared in the University Magazine of Montreal, which Macphail edited. McCrae sent his poems there for years before the war. The famous poem went instead to the English magazine Punch, where it appeared without a signature in December 1915.
So the collection is wider than its title. It covers soldiers and ships, love and loss, rest after labor, and faith. Reading it, you meet the man behind one famous poem and find that his themes were set long before the trenches.
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Questions about Flanderns Felder und andere Gedichte
What is In Flanders Fields about?
It is spoken by the dead soldiers buried among the poppies of Flanders. They ask the living to carry on the fight and to keep faith with them. The poem has fifteen lines and a repeated closing refrain.
Who wrote In Flanders Fields and when?
John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote it in 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres. It appeared without his name in the magazine Punch in December 1915. He died in 1918.
What else is in this collection besides the title poem?
It has about thirty more poems on war, ships, death, love, faith and daily work, written from 1894 to 1917. An essay by Sir Andrew Macphail on McCrae's life follows them.
Is this book easy to read?
The poems are short, use plain words and strong refrains, and are easy to read aloud. Macphail's essay tells McCrae's life through letters, scenes and anecdotes, so you can dip in at any section.