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Message:: [QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 18069, member: 103"]"In Flanders Fields" always seemed to me to be a very moving and evocative poem.  So much so, that many many years after I first learned it, I saw a picture of the real thing and recognized it instantly.  Having had rather a surfeit of poetry in college, I have come to be rather cavalier about the genre.  One of my favorite experiences was when Robert Frost came to speak -- and the first thing he said was to us English majors.  "You know my poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?"  We all nodded vigorously (having analysed it to death -- in my case, in TWO different classes in the SAME semester). "You know what it's about?" he said.  Oh God!  Is he going to ASK us?? "It's about stopping in the woods on a snowy evening. And that's all." DEAR Man! So I offer up some of my faves: Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn on a lion skin?Or would you preferTo err with herOn some other fur? Or, one I try often to use: When called by a panther,Don't anther. And, The other day upon the stair,I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today.I wish that man would go away.[/QUOTE]