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- Title
British Empire and Trench Poetry in World War I: John McCrae's "In Flanders' Fields--A Reflection".
- Authors
MacPhee, Chantelle
- Abstract
John McCrae's poem "In Flanders' Fields," while used as propaganda for the Great War effort in Canada and the British Empire, was also a powerful poetic memorial to a friend who died on the battlefield in World War I (1914-1918) as personified by "Death" itself. For McCrae, "Death" becomes the vessel through which he juxtaposes life and death, a way to rationalize the deaths of so many veterans who perished in World War I. The author also argues that McCrae's poem alludes to Shakespeare, a tribute to England's national poet and dramatist, to emphasize not only the magnitude of the Great War itself, but also to heighten our awareness as readers, engage us in the narrative and transfer the memory of what he bequests to us, lest we forget.
- Publication
Florida Political Chronicle, 2021, Vol 28, p54
- ISSN
1549-1323
- Publication type
Academic Journal