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World War I Poetry

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In Flanders Fields

1. How does the author juxtapose bucolic aspects of nature with war?




2. What effect upon you as reader does the break of the poetic rhythm of the last two stanzas have with the short and non-rhyming "in Flanders Fields" in the last line?




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World War I Poetry

3. Is there a common theme or themes distinguishable in these poems? If so, what?




4. Do you see any sense of the "glory of war" in these poems?