Three Poppies, Irving Penn, 1969 Who? Today, Remembrance Sunday for those in the Commonwealth, is a time when many will pin a poppy to their lapel, in respect for the soldiers who have died fighting for their country.
What? The poppy, a vibrant flower bearing 4 to 6 petals, has long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of their blood-red colour. In Greek and Roman myths, poppi...