Keith Douglas

thumb| Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy. Quotes Remember me when I am deadAnd simplify me when I’m dead. "Simplify me when I’m Dead", in Collected Poems (1951), pp. 56–7 But she would weep to see todayhow on his skin the swart flies move;the dust upon the paper eyeand the burst stomach like a cave.For here the lover and killer are mingledwho had one body and one heart.And death, who had the soldier singledhas done the lover mortal hurt. "Vergissmeinnicht, 1943", in Collected Poems (1951), p. 34 External links Keith Douglas, Collected Poems, ed. John Waller, G. S. Fraser and J. C. Hall (London, 1966 [1951]) Category:1920 births Category:1944 deaths Category:Poets from England Category:Deaths by war