Examples of use of In Flanders Fields
1. YPRES, Belgium –– The summer plowing season in Flanders Fields is a good time for Ivan Sinnaeve.
2. "In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row...." are the lines jotted down by a Canadian doctor, Lt.
3. Piet Chielens, head of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, said the region is "like the laboratory of war." "It was all out war, for the first time in its most absurd form," he said.
4. The first Legion Poppy Day was inspired by a 1'15 poem written by John McCrae, a serving officer, which starts: "In Flanders‘ fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scare heard amid the guns below."
5. And who among us will ever forget the haunting image of John McCrae‘s World War I poem: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row Frost said, "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." I would submit that the British novelist and journalist Henry Major Tomlinson said it even better: "The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem."