SR+death+is+absolute+and+without

The quote, "death is absolute and without memorial," is the start to a very moving and upsetting poem. In the first part of this quote, "death is absolute," is in a way promoting people to think that all soldiers die in war. The word absolute means something that is pure, right, complete, and perfect in quality or nature. To me that is saying that it is promising death is coming to all the soldiers fighting in a war, it is saying nobody will survive. Getting into the second half of the quote, "without memorial," is also saying that war does not bring a happy ending. I think this part is trying to portray that when a soldier is killed in a war there is no funeral. During a war, many soldiers die, because of this it is almost impossible to recover all the bodies for there own memorials. After going into more detail about each part of the poem, I feel it is proving that this poem was not meant to be a happy one about war. It was meant to make one feel concerned and caring for soldiers that fight, and do not get to have there own memorials.