In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems

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McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields' (1915) — written in twenty minutes in a dressing station after burying a friend — became the most widely read poem of the First World War and one of the most frequently recited poems in English. 'In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row': the image of poppies and the injunction to take up the fallen's struggle transformed the poppy into the permanent symbol of remembrance. The collection includes other poems but the title piece dwarfs them in cultural impact.