In Flanders Fields

“Say a solemn prayer, place a poppy in my hair”

Angela & Uncle Jerry connect Taylor's poppy imagery in verse three directly to John McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields,' the iconic World War One poem about poppies growing between the crosses of soldiers' graves. Uncle Jerry reads the full poem aloud and explicitly links the poppy as symbol of death and remembrance to Taylor's 'place a poppy in my hair.' He notes the poppy is 'a symbol of death, a symbol of remembrance' and says 'anything with poppies in it makes me remember that poem in Flanders Fields.'