[lit-ideas] Re: Canadian content(?)

Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 6:57:56 PM, Chris Bruce wrote:



CB> I find it interesting that you find 'In Flanders Fields' an antiwar
CB> poem.  It was not so presented to us through seemingly countless 
CB> renditions every Remembrance Day (Nov. 11th) throughout my school 
CB> years.  ("Take up our quarrel with the foe ... If you break faith with
CB> us who die we shall not sleep ...', etc.)

It seems the last stanza is often left out; there's a discussion of that,
and the poem, at the Peace Pledge Union.  I found it checking McRea, I
didn't know the PPU had poetry

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/poetry/poetry_ww1_1.html

Here _For the Fallen_ is the one that's countlessly rendered, but that's so 
long,
only this part is quoted (I think)

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

CB> I have the distinct impression that John McRae was a Canadian

it seems he is - the PPU has a biography.




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