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"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war." Remarque begins his introduction to All Quiet on the Western front with the idea that although the soldiers of a war may survive, they are eternally scarred for life. This idea is also represented in the poem "Heroes" by Louis Simpson. Both works deal with the topic of war, yet each writer addresses the issues of war in unique ways. Each author questions war and the negative effects of war on the society, and concludes that war's devastation doesn't merely affect soldiers and survivors in a physical aspect, but on an emotional and psychological level as well, which crushes their spirits and their souls.
Both in Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western front and in Simpson's poem "Heroes" use......

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