LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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Combat detaches a man from humanity.
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All is fair in love and war.
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It is honorable and just to defend your country in a war.
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There is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poem conveys the brutal violence of war through graphic depictions of the German’s body. The speaker and his fellow soldiers are walking across the “nightmare ground” of a previous battlefield when they discover the dead German.
Detailed explanation-2: -He is best remembered for poems describing his experiences as a tank commander in North Africa. These works are distinguished from those of most well-known poets of the world wars by their detached, reportorial style and avoidance of the traditional rhetoric of patriotism or protest.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vergissmeinnicht is the German for Forget-me-not. “Vergissmeinnicht", song attributed to Mozart. “Vergissmeinnicht", poem by Franz von Schober.
Detailed explanation-4: -’Vergissmeinnicht’ is written using 6 stanzas, each 4 lines long. This regular, organised structure could also reflect the never ending monotony of war, the highly organised nature of being in the army, or the lack of emotion that the soldiers are expected not to have when fighting on the battlefield.