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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 9, 2017 15:00:36 GMT
With Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day/Remembrance Day nearly upon us, I thought I’d ask this question.
A lot of American kids memorize In Flanders Fields as part of our education. Did you encounter it while growing up? It seems to be right up there with The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner for poetry that keeps popping up during different strata of education.
My daughter came home and told me that she was studying it and had to write a discursive analysis on the poem. I immediately recited it for her, but I failed to wow her. “It only has three stanzas. That’s not very impressive.”
Freakin’ kids. I couldn’t get enough WWI Canadian poetry when I was her age.
Bonus question: Did you learn the final word of the first line as “blow” or “grow”? I guess both were used by the author of the poem during his lifetime. I learned it as “grow” and my daughter learned it as “blow”. I tend to prefer “grow” because it gives the poem symmetry, as grow is used in the third stanza. A friend who is a professor of military history argues for blow, as the first stanza is framed as if one is at the gravesite.
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Post by pawntake on Nov 9, 2017 16:13:20 GMT
With Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day/Remembrance Day nearly upon us, I thought I’d ask this question. A lot of American kids memorize In Flanders Fields as part of our education. Did you encounter it while growing up in England it was the Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) poem "The Soldier" which starts with those immortal lines If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
This is the one we were taught to memorise.
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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 9, 2017 17:02:21 GMT
With Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day/Remembrance Day nearly upon us, I thought I’d ask this question. A lot of American kids memorize In Flanders Fields as part of our education. Did you encounter it while growing up in England it was the Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) poem "The Soldier" which starts with those immortal lines If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
This is the one we were taught to memorise.
Thank you very much for sharing. I wasn't familiar with that one. It just wasn't part of my cultural experience growing up.
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Post by sherlock on Nov 9, 2017 17:10:24 GMT
in England it was the Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) poem "The Soldier" which starts with those immortal lines If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
This is the one we were taught to memorise.
Thank you very much for sharing. I wasn't familiar with that one. It just wasn't part of my cultural experience growing up. 'The Soldier' is the one usually memorised in the U.K., as far as I've heard but 'In Flanders Fields' does get looked at too. Wilfred Owen's poems (Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce Et Decorum Est) get studied quite a lot as well.
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Post by muckypup on Nov 9, 2017 18:36:21 GMT
Yeah the soidier for me too.....
Along with performing journeys end.......
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Post by Ela on Nov 9, 2017 19:59:26 GMT
I don't recall ever reading or memorizing "In Flanders Fields" as a kid, but my spouse does. He says he definitely read it in school as a kid.
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 9, 2017 21:09:11 GMT
"In Flanders Fields" is big here in Australia too.
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