Returning to the battlefield
Returning to the battlefield
In Keith Douglas’s Vergissmeinnicht, soldiers return to a North African battlefield and find the decomposing body of a German soldier they previously fought. The speaker is both an observer of the corpse and a former enemy of the man.
Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE English Literature 2.2.8 Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century novel, the modern text, and the poetry cluster) alongside regular unseen-extract practice, since both components include unseen comparison questions that are usually the most time-pressured.