Flanders Fields

• Good poem for honour, duty, public opinion
• Sentimental and sensual perspective. Lack of battlefield language
• Anthropomorphistic imagery - "The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below" - Animal and human nature fight against somethign seemingly so inhumane
• "To you from failing hands we throw" - We commit ourselves for your safety.
• "The torch; be yours to hold it high" - Sacrifice. The torch represents the light of a new society
• "If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though Poppies grow In Flanders Fields" - "ye" archaic = Formalised indicator of "listen to me" Honour us for saving your society