Seeing war and having those thoughts and memories there forever is hard for any soldier to live with. World War I was one of the most destructive wars this world has ever seen. The soldiers who fought in WWI saw horrific things, and if those soldiers were lucky enough to survive, those horrific memories remained. In the book and poem they both show the pain and vivid harm the war did. Both the poem and the book show how war ages the soldiers. In the book it quotes “ We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long. We are old folks.” in the poem it helps see the quote better. The quote from the poem is “ We age hundred years and this descended” It helps visualize it because in the book they say things differently
