[lit-ideas] Re: HC Reed

Monday, April 25, 2005, 2:21:00 PM, Steven G. Cameron wrote:




SGC> **My first anti-war poem learned (we had to memorize it as well) was "In
SGC> Flanders Fields" by John McCrae (1872-1918) -- studied just prior to
SGC> Reed's (way back in 9th grade):

Goodness! I think of these poems as very Brit.

SGC> We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
SGC> In Flanders fields.

Yes -- it is genuinely haunting.  Poppies also grow in the fields on the slow
railway line from London to the Channel Coast, and grew on the
bomb-sites in the Bath of my very early childhood, and I love them,
but still, these words go with me.

Do you know "The Flowers of the Forest" (about the Battle of Flodden)?
 Very different. But I find it a little haunting, too: I can hear a
 piper's lament.



 

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