The dead sleep cold in Spain tonight

Sleep cold is a double predicate, which is a kind of fusion of a simple verbal and a compound nominal predicate. The adjective cold serving as a predicative is related to the subject. This adjective, however, is associated with other words of the passage bearing the notion of cold and death. One must also bear in mind that the use of adjectives with Hemingway is of particular importance. Generally he uses them sparingly, though when he does use them, they are mostly short one- syllable words carrying factual objective information or implicative value.

The Lincoln Battalion.

The Lincoln Battalion formed part of an international brigade. American volunteers had secretly left for Spain, since the U. S. A. declared neutrality, thus refusing to help the Spanish republic. Betrayed by pro-fascist generals, the republic was actually left without its regular army. It was then that the volunteers from 54 countries rushed to Spain, organizing international brigades.

3. there is forever for them to remember them in. The adverb forever is used here in a noun position. Opposed to passing time, it may be understood as a synonym for eternity, a word belonging to elevated vocabulary. Besides the word forever enters a set of repeated key-words of the text.