Vergissmeinnight

Forget me not; that's really the true meaning behind this poem. It's interesting how the poet looks at an enemy soldier's outlook because he feels sympathy towards the soldier. There is a picture of his girlfriend or wife that is next to the soldier and the reader feels a strong sense of remorse. No matter whose side a soldier is on, the soldier is still human and has people who care for him. It's really the despair behind war, and this poem is able to bring that out through it's descriptive explanation. The poet talks about how the gun won't decay like the body who used it and I though this was an interesting perspective because something that was so indestructible killed the user instantaneously. It may symbolize how war will kill many but the idea that stands behind the war will last forever. "For here the lover and the killer are mingled"-this sentence also explains the meaning of soldiers and how an average teenage guy back home is a killer on the front, and that the combination of two diverse lives makes war seem all the more awful and distort. When the soldier was trying to fight for rights and peace, he caused a war inside a woman who loved him. This poem definitely gives what war really does to soldiers and their family from both sides of the front.