[lit-ideas] Re: HC Reed
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:05:07 +0100
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.
--
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
