struggling to find sympathy for people in a text

for one of my English assignments, I have to choose two poems/texts that we've studied in class about war. but what the problem is, is that I have to express how the text makes me feel, which I know what the teacher wants. she wants me to express sympathy for these people or at least feel something. but when I read the text, I just feel nothing, I know it's bad and I'm not trying to be disrespectful and I know it's a serious topic, but I just don't know what to write down. and that section is worth 8 marks :'(