Vergissmeinnicht

The title Vergissmeinnicht is German for "forget-me-not." This relates to the poem because it is talking about war, soldiers, life and death.  It also has quite a bit of figurative language. I first noticed the use of rhyming, shown throughout the poem, such as, "paid, decayed and mingled, shingled." There was also some use of personification. When the author Kieth Douglas says, "The frowning barrel of his gun," it gives the human characteristic of frowning to an inanimate object. Another thing I noticed was his use of similes. Douglas compares, "my tank with one like the entry..." and also, "burst stomach like a cave." These comparisons using the word, "like," give examples for the reader to better understand the poem.