presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
Ruby, Mary K
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Examines the life of John McCrae, discussing his childhood, family, careers in medicine and the military, World War I experience, and other related topics, and including more than one hundred photographs, documents, and images.
Field surgeon and poet, John McCrae, was inspired to write "In Flanders Fields" after the death of a young friend in early 1915 on the battlefields of Ypres. Within months of the poem's December 1915 publication it had become part of the collective consciousness around the English-speaking world. It's extraordinary power has endured for decades and across generations and it is Canada's most famous poem. This book contains reflections from an assortment of people on the poem and their thoughts on war.
Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.
Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.
Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.
Examines the life of John McCrae, discussing his childhood, family, careers in medicine and the military, World War I experience, and other related topics, and including more than one hundred photographs, documents, and images.
Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.
