![]() ![]() Really is there anything one can do? Other than to be there for them. Many of the men that returned home after the war suffered from post traumatic stress disorder (P.T.S.D.) and many of their family members and friends did not know what to do. I swear to keep the dead upon my mind…” How can someone live life to the fullest when all they think about are the fallen soldiers. ![]() Brooks writes, “My best allegiances are to the dead. The soldiers feel as though it is unfair that they lived and the other soldiers did not live. Another sonnet called mentors discusses about soldiers that returned home but without their fellow comrades and that those soldiers that survived the war do not feel as though they can enjoy life again. I am incomplete.” Basically the soldier wants to be able to be himself once again before he went to the war, but it is not that easy. In the third sonnet, my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell specifically talks about how the soldier cannot return to he once used to be along with the things he used to do, such as simple things as dining out. Gay chaps at the Bar is a collection of 12 sonnets written by Gwendolyn Brooks. These sonnets discuss what it was like for men after returning home from the war.
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