Compare And Contrast After The War By John Kemmerch

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The World War I was one of the saddest battles, everything was ruined so people didn't know what to do and all they could do was write poems. These two poems i am comparing are very similar but opposite at the same time.
The first poem is “After the War” this poem is about the woman whose husband was in the army and had died while fighting the war. She talks about how she misses him and just wishes he was there with her, this poem is really sad but at the time she wouldn’t do thing but to write so then she wrote her poem. Back then not than many could do anything to express their feelings like we do today, all they could really do is either write or just leave it as that and cry . This poem is similar to the book because when Kemmerch was

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