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1
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Recall stanza 1 and stanza 2 of Vergissmeinnicht

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Three weeks gone and the combatants gone
returning over the nightmare ground
we found the place again, and found
the soldier sprawling in the sun.

The frowning barrel of his gun
overshadowing. As we came on
that day, he hit my tank with one
like the entry of a demon.

2
Q

Recall stanza 2 of Vergissmeinnicht

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Look. Here in the gunpit spoil
the dishonoured picture of his girl
who has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht.
in a copybook gothic script.

3
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Recall stanza 3 of Vergissmeinnicht

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We see him almost with content,
abased, and seeming to have paid
and mocked at by his own equipment
that’s hard and good when he’s decayed.

4
Q

Recall stanza 4 of Vergissmeinnicht

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But she would weep to see today
how on his skin the swart flies move;
the dust upon the paper eye
and the burst stomach like a cave.

5
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Recall stanza 5 of Vergissmeinnicht

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For here the lover and killer are mingled
who had one body and one heart.
And death who had the soldier singled
has done the lover mortal hurt.

6
Q

Describe the structure of the poem

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  • six stanzas of quatrains

- irregular rhyme scheme

7
Q

What is the tone like in the poem?

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dull, sombre, dark

8
Q

an uneven feel is created right at the start of the poem through the use of…

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  • the alliteration of the ‘s’ sound

- not having ‘gone’ and ‘sun’ rhyme

9
Q

What does the simile ‘like the entry of a demon’ show?

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The harsh and diabolic effects of war

10
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What line tells us that the picture in the poem had been dishonoured?

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‘the dishonoured picture of his girl’

11
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How do we know that the soldier had been disrespected?

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‘swart flies’ move around his dead, lifeless body