In the sentence “Bid them be patient, and some day, anon”, John McCrae was describing the importance of being patient, because something will be happen
sooner or later. When it deals with a battle, a good planning to attack and defend is a crucial part to reach the victory. To achieve something; we have to do
perfectly and step by step. The next sentence “They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep” is the
statement of the future of all soldiers, where they will finally die and buried with silence on Earth; which bears a certain believe that the war will someday really
over. The following sentences “Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn, and
in content may turn them to their sleep”, serves as a supporting statement. It gives hope that once the war is over, they will have peaceful moments at last. This
poetry ended in line sixteen where the soldiers are finally rest in peace under their tomb; knowing that what they wished, believed, fought for, and die for has come
true. Here John McCrae use the word sleep to elucidates the death of the soldiers.
2. John McCrae’s View on War as seen in “The Anxious Dead”
“The Anxious Dead” is showing John McCrae’s view concerning the hope and the renewal behind the war. From this four stanzas poem, we can learn his
expectation to stop the war. He used the word “pause” as a symbol of hope that the wars have to stop for a moment to give people time to see or contemplate what
the importance of the war is and what are they hoping after the war.
Or some people who lead the war, a victory is the obligation answer to gain. For some soldier, especially John McCrae, the necessity to defend his
country and his believed to fight evil is the motivation in the battle. The patriotism spirit also encourages the soldier to lead them to choose their faith in the war.
John McCrae and his faith consider that his life belong to the battle rather than in his comfort home.
Soon after he realized that war had given disaster and taken everything, he conclude that the only way to fixed it is to stop the war. He had saw enough
beneath the war, and he is getting tired of it, because he knows that almost every soldier feel like he feel when they lost his friend, when they lost their family or
they lost what they love.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
This chapter presents the result of this study. It is divided into two main sections. The first section of this chapter contains the conclusion of the analysis
done in Chapter IV. It presents the result of how war portrayed in the three poems and how war reflected John McCrae’s life. In this chapter the study also presents
suggestion for future researcher and the second is the implementation of poetry in teaching English.
A. Conclusion
After analyzing “In Flanders Fields”, “The Warrior” and “The Anxious Dead” using the socio-historical and biographical approaches and information
from the criticism and the poets’ biographies, the study comes to the conclusion. John McCrae is described as a good citizen and he also has a good
personality. It is reflected on his will to join the military during the war as a field soldier and then became a doctor who take cares of soldiers in the trenches in
Flanders. Besides being a doctor and a soldier, John McCrae was also a good writer.
In his three poems, John McCrae shows the exceptional of his view on war. During his experiences in the war, he stated that war is like two sides of a
coin. War has two faces, and each face shows the contradiction. From John McCrae personal view, the good side of a war is to raises the nationality, loyalty
