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Explore the themes of patriotism and sacrifice in Rupert Brooke's poem 'The Soldier'. This analysis delves into the use of first-person perspective, metaphors, and imagery that evoke national pride and the concept of immortality through death in battle. Ideal for students studying war poetry and the emotional landscape of pre-war Britain.

Rupert Brooke's The Soldier

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Poems

Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley

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deaths in war
girls have to
The Soldier
first person writing
imperative - commands reader to romantises
mom their death.
from the vioce of a-1fI should die, think only this of me: decisn in duty suggest that we don't
Soldier who never sow That there's some corner of a foreign field for from home but England will
active combat
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
England personifA dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
as a mother to
English citizens
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
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repeated imperatiu -And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
instructing reader
need to give
back to England
Sibilance creates
gentle tone
always be with them.
all other countries.
believes England is better than
THE SOLDIER
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.nationalistic pride.
suggesting how beautiful
England is
RUPERT BROOKE
death brings peace and comfort
Knowing he died for his country
protecting his nation.
Pastitive features of nature imply
metophor illustrates that he sees
mimself as part of a greater being
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less-in death will become part of the
universe and achieves some form of immortality
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
cherish the memories of
England /home.
repetition the patriotic ideors that
characteristics pre-war Britain
Notable he doesn't reference othe countries
-not even Brátain
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