In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

By John McCrae
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In Flanders Fields is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London-based magazine Punch. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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GenrePoetry
Length3 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1IN FLANDERS FIELDS
26A Song of Comfort
2In Flanders Fields
27The Pilgrims
3The Anxious Dead
28The Shadow of the Cross
4The Warrior
29The Night Cometh
5Isandlwana
30In Due Season
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6The Unconquered Dead
31I. In Flanders Fields
7The Captain
32II. With the Guns
8The Song of the Derelict
33Here ends the account of his part in this memorable battle,
9Quebec
34And here follow some general observations upon the experience:
10Then and Now
35A few strokes will complete the picture:
11Unsolved
36And here is one last note to his mother:
12The Hope of My Heart
37At this time the Canadian division was moving south to take its share in
13Penance
38This phase of the war lasted two months precisely,
14Slumber Songs
39III. The Brand of War
15The Oldest Drama
40IV. Going to the Wars
16Recompense
41V. South Africa
17Mine Host
42The next entry is from South Africa:
18Equality
43The next letter is from the Lines of Communication:
19Anarchy
44Three weeks later he writes:
20Disarmament
45With Ian Hamilton's column near Balmoral.
21The Dead Master
46At Lyndenburg:
22The Harvest of the Sea
47VI. Children and Animals
23The Dying of Pere Pierre
48VII. The Old Land and the New
24Eventide
49VIII. The Civil Years
25Upon Watts' Picture "Sic Transit"
50IX. Dead in His Prime

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