vergissmeinnicht

Vergissmeinnicht: Three weeks gone and the combatants gone

Repetition(gone) emphasising the lack of care for the soldiers death, symbolises humanities kindness departing

Vergissmeinnicht: The frowning barrel of his gun overshadowing

Figurative lang + complex structure emphasises the harshness and complexity of war. Personification, shows the guns have a longer life than men - making a facial expression.

Vergissmeinnicht: Look. Here in the gunpit spoil.. who has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht, in a copybook gothic script

"Spoil” emotional coldness as brits search the dead remains, shows radicalisation of war. Imperative + litote, brings readers attention. Irony as the picture with a “perfect font” is dishonoured and ripped, emphasises the losses during war

Vergissmeinnicht: Paid and mocked at by his own equipment, that’s hard and good while hes decayed

Personification of his gun, humiliating as he is mocked by an inanimate object. Vivid, violent imagery of a decayed body, shows the violence of war, and emotional coldness

Vergissmeinnicht: The dust on the paper eye and the burst stomach like a cave

Gory imagery and zoomorphic simile shows the violence of war, extent to which he is forgotten, onomatopoeia in plosive “b” in “burst”