New Poem Packet

This week I'm doing "Vergissmeinnicht." I read the poem before I actually looked up what the title meant. It made it harder to understand what the poem was telling me. But that big long word that I don't want to type again means forget me not. Then I read the poem again and it's about a dead German soldier. Well it's about an American soldier seeing a dead German soldier. Anyway, the American soldier sees this enemy and doesn't feel remorse, and then he spots a picture of the dead guys girlfriend and that word is written on the back. She probably gave it to him and can't wait for him to come home and be with her. The author even writes about how the American soldier thinks she'll feel. "But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move the dust upon the paper eye, the burst stomach like a cave." She would have cried and been sick to see what happened to the man she loves. I believe the last stanza is showing that the German soldier was a lover and a killer mixed into one body. The last two lines were a little hazy, "And death who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt." I couldn't tell if he was talking about the soldier and the killer is one and he killed the soldier and hurt the lover half of him forever, or if it was that the soldier died and it left HIS lover in mortal hurt. I can't help but think that it;s the first option. The mass killer and the lover in one body. What would his girlfriend of said if she has known the terrible things he had done? Would she still love him?