Beautiful Wreckage Wd Ehrhart Analysis

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Beautiful Wreckage Synopsis

In this poem by W.D. Ehrhart the plot is the conscious dreams of the narrator. The poem takes place in many Every “what if” tells what the narrator has experienced in the war and if those things had never happened he asks would the outcome be the same or would it be better. “Would it be Wreckage or would it be Beautiful. The poem talks of all the horrible parts of war that the narrator experiences. Such as him having to kill an old women as well as an old man. But nothing as bad as the young boy that dies in the poem. The reason this is so much worse than the older people dying is because the young boy has his entire life in front of him.
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In this poem I believe the narrator is talking about what has happened

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