Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas

Well the first thing I did with this poem would be that I looked up the translation for Vergissmeinnicht and foud out it meant Forget Me Not, which really helped me understand the poem more. I also found that it is a German word and from the words in the poem i can decipher that this is about World War II. I think that this was probably my favorite poem so far for this packet. Anything that has to do with Germany or WWII i am super interested in so I guess I can be a little biased. This poem is about a soldier who has died on the battlefield, and how another soldier the enemy soldier found him and just by looking at a picture of his girl learned a lot about him. He found out the soldier was not only a killer, but was a lover to that girl in the photo. This poem flowed so well, which made it a little easier to read and understand, but without that translation i don't think i could get what the poem is trying to tell me. In war we never get to know the enemy and don't think of them to relating to us, but when we do learn that we do have something in common it is usually to late. I really loved this poem and will probably always remember it.