Forget Me Not Annotated

In the poem Forget Me Not, the narrator talks about his dead enemy and his lover that would be mortally hurt. This poem has a negative view of death. The soldiers went back to where the killed the enemy. On the place where the call it the “nightmare ground.” The narrator used the word sprawling to describe the soldier’s position when the enemy died and left there decomposing under the sun. His tone in this stanza is grim.
In (Stanza 2, Line 2) "We" is the narrator and his fellow combatants. The narrator talks about the day when they had an encounter in the battlefield. (Stanza 2, Lines 4 and 5), he hit my tank with one like the entry of a demon. His tone is defensive. The narrator called the enemy a demon like he had no choice to kill him to protect himself and his men.
In (Stanza 3, Line 1), the narrator found a picture of the enemy's lover. …show more content…
The poem is about a prisoner talking about Althea a lover that doesn’t exist. (Stanza 1, Line 1) he is talking about how love is free and not confined like him. He is making his time in prison by imagining Althea as a lover. This is a positive poem. Even though he is locked up, he managed to be optimistic using his imagination. In (Stanza 1, Line 5) when I lie tangled in her hair. Since Althea is not really there, he was probably talking about his chains in jail. Even though he's in jail, he is using his imagination. Using it, he can be free but, not really. His tone is optimistic. With that characteristic, his mind is much freer than the birds, fish, and winds in the poem. Even though he is in a bad situation, there are no restrictions on what he can do. If you are able to do it, your mind is always free. He is finding solace by making Althea up. He kept repeating " know no such liberty" in the poem. It means that those things don't have that kind of freedom like he does. In the last stanza, he is saying the stone wall does not stop you from loving someone. It makes your soul