How Did The Soldiers Survive During The Second World War

A War of Vivid Scenes Death, disability, and love the triangle of heartache. More than 9 million combatants were killed during this Great War. The questions I ask myself are do the survivors really survive after war? Or are they so tarnished with war they cannot function with daily tasks. Do the soldiers go to war knowing they are not coming back? Are they proud of what they are doing? Is it a relief to come back sooner with a limbs missing? All of these questions you too may also be asking about this first global war and I will be answering these questions though the soldiers themselves with the poetry they wrote during their time in action from a book called World War One British Poets, Brooke, Owen, Sasson, Roseberg, and Others. “Dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.” Words spoken by Rupert Brooke born in 1887, died of blood poisoning shortly before the Gallipoli expedition at the age of 28. He is best known for his saying “ If I
The second time in 1916 he was sent to France but only for him to be sent to a mental hospital for paranoid schizophrenia form being wounded in April of 1917. He died in 1937 in the London Mental Hospital in Kent. Before Gurney lost his marbles he wrote a poem he called “To His Love” (pg. 29) this is a poem he wrote about a friend he had and this was to his lover telling her he is dead. “He’s gone, and all our plans are useless indeed.” “His body that was so quick is not as you knew it, on Severn river under the blue diving our small boat through. You would not know him now . . . But still he died nobly, so cover him over with violets of pride purple form the Severn side. Telling her that war has done its work on his body and she should “hide that red wet thing” with “Masses of memoried flowers-“ So they can forget and remember him for his Pride and nobility that he died