What is the mood of the poem Flanders fields?
McCrae, in the medical service of Great Britain during World War I, wrote the poem shortly after officiating at the funeral of his friend, Lieut. Alexis Helmer, in the absence of the chaplain at his station. Helmer was killed by a shell burst, and in this poem, it is as though Major McCrae was trying to divine the parting words of his friend.
