EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Remember (Big Bang Album), In Flanders Fields, A.J. Smith
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Lecture seven: world war i: modernist cosmopolitanism vs. Nationalism in canada: the first world war was also known as the crisis of nationalism. We should be building a universal spirit across the individual nations. State is legal framework that can be put into place to govern the people. The nation is the culture, you gather a big group of people and you have a sense of ourselves as part of the same community. Use the poppy to remember the first world war based on this poem: the battel is still going, flanders field is this specific place in belgium making a link between the land and what happens there. It is not only political but also sacred: he makes it explicit when he says (cid:498)we are the dead(cid:499) this makes it very gothic. We: how rhetorically does: (cid:498)lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow(cid:499).
