ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Remember (Big Bang Album), John Mccrae, In Flanders Fields
22 Mar 2013
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World war 1- 1914-1918, canada was apart of british colony and fought with britain, lost 65 000 soldiers in. Impact of new technology on war and how changes traditional attitudes towards war. That mark our place; and in the sky. Loved and were loved, and now we lie. The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die. In flanders fields: poem was used as propaganda tool by canadian govn. to recruit soldiers, how does this poem speak to attitudes towards memory, our responsibilities, and death: Memory- always remember (shall not sleep), poppies are weeds and hard to remove which resembles how soldiers and war are hard to remove from our memory, second stanza, Death- honouring the dead and remembering them, the dead are speaking to us, death is viewed as sleeping (not morbid at all), little violence.
