As always iam gathering main theme of poem and poet biography briefly here it’s vergissmeinnicht poem conveys brutal violence of war through graphic depicts of German body . The speaker and his follow soldiers are walking across night mare ground of previous battle field when they discover dead German . Keith Douglas ( 1920-1944) he was poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during second war and his wry memoir of western desert campaign, Alamein to zem zem . He was killed in action during invasion of Normandy.
War is hell as an american president once said, but how many concentration camp victims who died at the hands of those german soldiers were given the opportunity to leave forget me not to their beloved!!! I would never write a poem humanizing German soldiers or Japanese soldiers of wwll...too much innocent blood that they spilled!!!
As always iam gathering main theme of poem and poet biography briefly here it’s vergissmeinnicht poem conveys brutal violence of war through graphic depicts of German body . The speaker and his follow soldiers are walking across night mare ground of previous battle field when they discover dead German . Keith Douglas ( 1920-1944) he was poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during second war and his wry memoir of western desert campaign, Alamein to zem zem . He was killed in action during invasion of Normandy.
War is hell as an american president once said, but how many concentration camp victims who died at the hands of those german soldiers were given the opportunity to leave forget me not to their beloved!!! I would never write a poem humanizing German soldiers or Japanese soldiers of wwll...too much innocent blood that they spilled!!!
Vergismienicht to Vergissmeinnicht