{"id":521,"date":"2014-10-22T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/?p=521"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:56:52","slug":"ww1-poetry-flanders-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/2014\/10\/22\/ww1-poetry-flanders-field\/","title":{"rendered":"WW1 and Poetry at Flander&#8217;s Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To you from failing hands we throw<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The torch; be yours to hold it high.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If ye break faith with us who die<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In Flanders fields.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; <span class=\"st\">Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I should have asked by friend Chris, \u00a0a published poet and professor of English, to verify my hunch \u2013 that there was more poetry written during the First World War (WW1) than any other war. \u00a0 Authors of virtually every general history of the war I\u2019ve read use poems throughout their narratives; poems to try and convey the emotions of war the impact of the events on the individual; the pain of losing a friend or seeing so many die. \u00a0As a rule, a poet connects with those aspects of being human much better than we historians.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from Steve Rubert on &#8216;Poetry and War&#8217; on his timely blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/exploringww1\/2014\/08\/05\/poetry-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring World War I in Belgium and The Netherlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/2014\/10\/22\/ww1-poetry-flanders-field\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126502,784],"tags":[232453,142425,232297],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-history","tag-flanders","tag-poetry","tag-ww1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}