Respond to this discussion positively. Paraphrase "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. The small red flowers blooming in a recent battlefield grow between crosses marking where soldiers lay buried after battle. Despite the deaths that recently happened there, birds sing and fly in the sky. The soldiers who died were previously as alive as the reader. In death, they rely on the reader to carry on their memory. They ask to not be forgotten by having their memory respected by continuing the fight in their honor. Connotation, the meaning of the poem While Flanders Field represents the battlefields in Belgium, the red poppies among the crosses hint at the blood shed by soldiers who died there. The larks still flying bravely suggest that even though many men recently lost their lives in the field, the world still goes on without them. Finally, the torch being held high implies that the dead soldiers would have wanted others to carry on and not give up so that these brave men would not have died in vain. Attitude/Tone The overall tone of the poem is of tragedy. "Between the crosses, row on row," "and now we lie" and "To you from failing hands