Sunday 9 November 2014

Sunday Snap – In Flanders fields the poppies blow


There was much pumpkin love last week. I think we were all glad we didn't have the task of carving that huge pumpkin.

The abandoned railway from week ran to a Kent port which ended up getting overshadowed by the far bigger port of Dover situated a few miles down the road. The answer to last week's question was of course then:

Folkestone

For this week's Sunday Snap I thought it was only fitting for Remembrance Sunday to share my photograph of the poppy installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London. The symbol of the poppy as a sign of remembrance came about after fields of red poppies started appearing in the spring of 1915. Poppy seeds can lie dormant for years until disturbed and in this case by the constant shelling and fighting in the French and Belgian fields. Two days before the Armistice was declared in 1918 an American lady named Moina Belle Michael was reading the poem We Shall Not Sleep – the alternative name for the poem In Flanders Fields. She was struck by the last verse:

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

From there her inspiration to use a red poppy as symbol of remembrance grew. The popularity of the poppy spread across the world over the years with the British Legion launching a British Poppy Day Appeal in 1921. So this week's question is:

Who wrote the poem In Flanders Fields?

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15 comments:

  1. Such a beautiful sight. So sad I probably won't get to see it in real life...

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  2. The poppies are simply amazing, I don't think you can fully appreciate it until you are there in front of them.

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    1. I think it really gets to you when you realise that each of those poppies represents someone who died.

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  3. Love poppies just amazing that pictures looks amazing wow.x

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  4. I wish I had been able to see the poppies. They look amazing!

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    1. They going on their travels shortly so you may get a chance to see some of them.

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  5. The poppies are just beautiful - we loved seeing them x x

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  6. beautiful...we went last week and loved it xx

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  7. Amazing! It's a beautiful way to pay respect (there was a lot of heroes polish soldiers too)

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    1. I know - there's a Polish war cemetery in Newark.

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  8. Such an amazing and beautiful photo. We would have loved to have seen the display!

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  9. Wow, so many poppies!
    This is a great picture.

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  10. We visited the Tower of London back in the summer when they were first starting this task - it looked amazing then, so by now it must be breathtaking

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  11. I am so glad that I managed to take the boys to see this and purchase a poppy. It is amazing

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