Reflection – In a Soldiers Hospital 1: Pluck

I think that In a Soldiers Hospital 1: Pluck by Eva Dobell has made the biggest impression on me. I liked it because it really gave me an idea of how the war must have been. However, I like this poem in particular because it is told in the perspective of a nurse who is experiencing the horrors of the war and what it can do to these young men.

At the beginning, she talks about how they were just kids who wanted to be in the army. Even told lies to march with the men if the country only to have their lives turned around. Knowing these men did this to themselves or were called cowards until they did must be disappointing.

Honestly, I sympathize with her because she is working in the hospital all day. It must be extremely stressful because there are many young men already injured and many more to come. I think it would be unbearable to listen to the screaming of the soldiers, especially since she is a dresser.

I like how in a part of this poem, she talks in the perspective of a wounded soldier. And how she empathizes with him on how much it must hurt every day to have the bandages changed every day, only to see his wounded body and become a soldier again.

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