Questions For Poetry Circles: in flanders field

Questions for Poetry Circles:

Note: You use the same questions for each poem that you read.

1. How does this poem make you feel? What emotions do you feel when you read it?- When I read the poem In Flanders Feild, the emotions i get are sadness and fustration. I feel sadness because there are so many poppies in flanders feild and for each poppy, there is a soldier that is represented. I feel fustration because all the poppys show all the soldier that died.


2. What is the poem about? The poem is about the poppies showing all the soldier that died in that feilld.


3. List some of the descriptive words the poet uses and explain why they are effective. The words bravely singing are effective in the poem as it meanns they still went on singing even though they were hurt and evrything was wrong.


4. Why do you think the poet wrote this poem? What was he/she trying to achieve? i think that the poet wrote this poem to make readers become aware of what the soldiers went through. and that know they're gone the poppies in flanders feild are repesenting them.


5. Write down your favourite line/lines from the poem. Explain why you picked them. We lived, felt down, saw sunset glow. are my favourite lines because to me it seems like the soldiers were hurt after battle but still smiled and loved.


6. Does this poem rhyme? yes


7. If the poem rhymes how do you think this adds to the overall effect of the poem? yes because it makes the poem seems better.
8. Had you ever seen/heard this poem before? If yes, when/where? no


9. Did you like this poem? Explain why. yes because it short and easy to understand


10. Does the poem create an image in you head? If yes, describe what you see in your mind. You may draw a picture to show what you see if you prefer. yes the image i get in my head is heaps of bodies lying on the feild and then when the bodies are moved, all the red poppies bloom.