Tag: Poetry

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14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

14th September 2021
Tagged as: America, Music, Nationalism, Poetry, USA

On the 14^th September 1814, the poem that was to provide the lyrics for the United States’ national anthem was written by 35 year-old Francis Scott Key.

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3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’

3rd May 2019
Tagged as: Canada, Culture, First World War, Poetry, War, Ypres

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.