Comparing In Flanders Field And To His Love By Ivor Gurney

As we know it World War I was an ugly war by no means was it pretty. Lots of blood and screaming many men died. War ruined a lot of things for ordinary people and made things very hard for families. Families found one way to deal with this and it was writing poetry to express their feelings because there was no such thing as technology.
The first poem i am going to talk about is “In Flanders Fields” by John Mccrae. I personally like this poem a lot and i enjoyed reading it. This poem is about these soldiers who were in war but did not make it home. They died while serving but even with them being gone, these soldiers made it clear they want everyone to move on and continue fighting against the enemy. These men knew exactly what was going to happen and fully accepted it.
The second poem is called “To His Love” by Ivor Gurney. This one is about how this guy is remembering all the good times he had with his best friend but he’s dead now. They can’t finish their plans and he

Except that one deals with only one person dying and the other poem deals with more than one soldier being dead. The fact that these two are during the same war also makes sense why they are similar in many ways.
Now these two poems relate a lot to the book called “All Quiet On The Western Front”. In the book the main character baumer and his best friend plus several other classmates join the war and go through many things. When they first all got there it wasn’t very joyful like it was being talked about back at home.
As time goes on baumer has to deal with death himself. See these two poems and this book go along great because it deals with hard times during war and losing loved ones. It gets really tough because you want everything to be be ok but you know that is not possible. You have to take care of yourself first. Both of those poems have deep meaning behind them and so does the