poem thingy

In the poem “vergissmeinicht” which means forget me not by the way. I think he chose the poem title to be “vergissmeinicht” because in the Poem basically it shows t he guy he killed had a girl friend and on it said “vergissmeinicht”. I think she wrote that because they probably won’t see each other again or something.

Another wonderful thing about this poem is that like Mrs. Morton said in her slide show that some poems are just as powerful as 500 page novels. The poem also explains such good detail like when it says paper eyes, cave stomach and a swarm of flies upon his skin. Which if you think a bout it is quite disturbing to me.

So I am not sure but I think it trying to tell you that the guy hit his tank with something. Then he fired back at him and killed him. Then there examining the body and the stuff he had is what the poem is all about.

I don’t understand it when he says “and death who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt” I don’t know why but I just don’t know what it means. It’s pretty awkward how Keith Douglas died the year after he wrote the poem and how he died at such an early age. Its you guys can tell that the poem was taken place in world war 2 which I think is pretty amazing and if you haven’t notice a lot of people always write about war, hmmmmmmmmm quite fascinating.