vergissmeinnight....

this poem by keith douglas was extremely intriguing. i started to read it and i was immediately hooked into it. it is about a dead soldier of course but instead of it being about death or about the battle that he was in or even about how he died, this poem is more about what happens after his death and what kind of happened before his death, and all of this coming from the point of view of another soldier, im assuming of course.

i like how he describes the man, and how his gun is frowning and overshadowing, so it exhibits sadness because of what it has done, and it is overshadowing because it probably is more important than the carrier of that gun. he then describes the gun and says that it hit his take with one like an entry of a demon. violent and hard, like a bullet. then he says the picture of the girl is dishonored, possibly because he is dead? he states they see him with content and she will cry because he has died, because the "lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart." this states that the dead soldier is a kind of monster because he is a lover and a killer....very lovely poem.