Vergissmeinnicht
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- Created on: 21-05-18 11:30
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- Vergissmeinnicht
- A02
- Quartets
- No specified rhyme scheme (Modern) free verse
- Ambiguity used throughout especially at the end (modernism)
- Shift on line 17 'But' brings poem back to human side of the soldier
- Grotesque metaphors and similes 'bust stomach like a cave' juxtaposition of love v soldier death
- Irony as equipment is unscathed but man is 'decayed' and man made the equipment
- Main ideas
- Lost love
- Love can transcend death
- Looks at a dead soldier and a picture of 'his girl'. intermingling of love and death
- Forget me not
- A03
- Keith Douglas
- Extrospective style based on what he sees rather than emotions
- Description shifts the burden from poet to reader
- Uncomfortable nature 'Douglas work disturbs through seemingly callous detachment' (Rawlinson)
- The ambiguous ending is typical of modern era
- Links with Jane (A04)
- Jane is atypical of Victorian literature, poem is atypical of English war poetry
- Both show that love can transcend. Jane -social class and poem death
- Both have violence
- A02
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