HELP ! read passage 1 "fromThe Open Boat" then read passage 2( a poem) "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" then answer the question

Explain the effect of the juxtaposition of the following lines that serve as a beginniing to the new section that begins on page nine: anguish. german soldiers-with their steel helmets and their deaths-head emblem. still, our first impressions of the germans were rather reassuring.