Below is a line-by-line analysis of "In Flanders Fields." Click on each of the red words to read more about the history of the poem.

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance ... into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders ...

I was the only person in the carriage wearing a remembrance poppy on my lapel ... a poppy comes from John McCrae’s poem In Flanders fields the poppies blow, written in memory of a friend ...

Thousands of students from across the country are pledging to recite a century-old war poem as Remembrance Day approaches. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

Gordon Michie, Poppyscotland’s Head of Fundraising, said: “100 years ago, the Poppy that grew on Flanders Fields was adopted as our nations symbol of Remembrance, this little flower has over the last ...