V .The Soldier Analysis

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England.There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.



And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

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.

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rupert is a patriotic he really love to die on his country,even some says that it is s***t, way of loving our country.

| Posted on 2010-08-26 | by a guest

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most people here are some of the dumbest and ignorant people I have ever had the misfortune of running into. Go jump in front of a truck!

| Posted on 2010-08-11 | by a guest

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What specific literary devices are found in the poem? And what is the most important phrase in the poem? Please help... Thank you!

| Posted on 2010-07-29 | by a guest

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This war sonnet is very British, idealistic and traditional as it was written before the horrors of the Great War were known to Rupert Brooke. The personification of England in the second stanza adds a patriotic and optimistic tone to the poem. The main message is that dying in war is dying a hero.

| Posted on 2010-07-05 | by a guest

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The main theme is patriotism.
definitely NOT propaganda, because he truely believed it was wonderful to die for one's country.

| Posted on 2010-06-08 | by a guest

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What are the themes of this poem? i need help URGENTLYY! please will someone respond asap!

| Posted on 2010-06-06 | by a guest

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You have to consider the time at which some poems were written! It does matter, because at the start of the war everyone though it would be wonderful to sacrifice your life for your country! This isn't Brooke being a jerk, he truely thought, as did everyone at that time, that war is glorius and a heroic way to die. In Brooke's poem "The Dead" he says "But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold" They truely believed war wasn't as bad, because it had only just begun, the horrors were yet to be discovered.
Brooke is not being sarcastic either! He was a very patriotic poet, you have to know a bit of background to fully understand a poem. For example, Siegfried Sassoon also writes in a sonnet format, but his poems are SARCASTIC because he hated the war since he actually had to face it. As opposed to Brooke who never got a proper chance to witness war. His views are bound to be more glorified than Sassoon's!
Anyway, this poem contains soft sounding, dramatic, romantic and religious imagery to convey the "holiness" of war. He creates a positive imagery in the reader's mind, because he really did love his country.
The opening sentence is "If I should die..." showing he doesn't mind dying himself.

| Posted on 2010-06-01 | by a guest

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There is lots of biblical reference in the poem, and I believe that this poem could have been used for propaganda, it being incredible patriotic, and neo-romanticized. Although it is written well, it is far from realistic. Is anyone going to analyze this poem properly by the way?

| Posted on 2010-05-26 | by a guest

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You are reading this all wrong?
Is it not about him fighting in the war, and him thinking back to his home country and all the great memories?
he paints the scene of a beautiful valley, hills and sunshine in england, where he is from and his family is
and talks of flowers blossoming there which is so different to the mud, dirt and bloodstained ground that surrounds him in the place he is fighting?
i thought this poem was about him missing his beautiful country that he loves.

| Posted on 2010-04-30 | by a guest

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I totally agree with the second to last person who wrote on here.
It is all about time difference. Wilfred Owens "dulce et decorum est" was so much more graphic and powerful because he had witnessed disgusting things.
Rupert Brooke was definately a patriot, which many writers were before the war started and in the early times, but the war changed them.
Brooke wrote this early on, so he should be entitled to his opinion and he writes beautifully.
There is nothing wrong with his idealistic views, plus it gives greater depth when analysing ww1 literature as there are many juxtaposing writers out there, and this makes it more interesting.
Georgia

| Posted on 2010-04-14 | by a guest

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near enough all the comments on the poems is comments nothing is analysed so wtp???

| Posted on 2010-04-12 | by a guest

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I've seen too many negative comments on here to let it pass. I didn't read to the end because I'd had enough of what I was reading. So, here goes:
Too many of you are taking his patriotism out of context. He was living in an age when it was believed 'sweet and right' to die for your country, "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". Owen's poem on this theme was written far later in the war when the fighting had dragged on for four long years, and both sides had found a million new brutal ways of killing each other.
Brooke's poem is beautiful in it's own, if you follow it's idealistic simplicity; it's a beautiful thought that our spirits can still linger on when we die, and at the time, people wanted to believe they were dying for a reason.
I saw one or two comments which criticised Brooke for dying from an infected insect bite; hardly his fault. He was on his way to fight in Gallipoli when he died, so he was hardly shirking the fighting.
Appreciate the poetry for what it is and in it's true context.

| Posted on 2010-03-31 | by a guest

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Tomorrow I have a test about a few poems, this one is included.
What I can say: The poem is written as respect to the soldiers who all died during the WWII, you can see that in the line where he says: A body of England's, breathing English air"
They are the reason for England as a 'wholesome'
It's worth analyzing the poem, I like it.

| Posted on 2010-03-23 | by a guest

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Brooke did experience some war, He helped defend Antwarp... but they had to retreat because they were overpowered by the enemy.

| Posted on 2010-03-16 | by a guest

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allright poem but he should have experienced the war not playing with mosquitoes and the nets are £5.99.

| Posted on 2010-03-10 | by a guest

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I think that patriotism can all too easily turn into (macho)violence and war, and it it these kinds of people who think that their country is superior to other countries that are the downfall of this world. England has always had this problem of believing that England is greater in the global scheme of things. Jez Butterworth's recent play 'Jerusalem' explores this. Such patriotic English people that dress up and glorify England by surrounding it with myths and creations, like in this poem, are what has led England to interfere in other countries like it did to all the countries that it 'colonialised', and other places like Ireland or the Falklands. England seems to feel the need to invade and try to influence all these other countries in a desperate bid to make them feel like they are still some powerful empire and it is poems like these which demonstrate this.

| Posted on 2010-02-14 | by a guest

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if people have a problem with glorification of war in this poem, they should read- the war prayer- by mark twain, probably much more up your street. if you dont like this poem w/e but its just his personal opinion, who cares if hes a patriot, its his opinion, doesnt have to be yours. at the end of the day, i wouldnt want to go to war in a million years, but where would most people be if there wont some people brave enough to go for us. yeah would be nice to have no war n all but not really gonna happen is it?

| Posted on 2010-02-01 | by a guest

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Okay taking on board your views I am going to agree with the person who posted a note just before me, I have to say Brooke is way to patriotic and as a whole we are more likely to consider the view points of someone who experienced war
thank you
olivia

| Posted on 2009-12-21 | by a guest

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PAH! you are obviously WEIRD IF YOU FINK DAT Brooke is all that he dint even experience war da dum guy needs to stop being patriotic how can you consider his points bloody hell

| Posted on 2009-12-21 | by a guest

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I LOVE THIS POEM AND THINK RUPERT BROOKE LOOKS CUTE. SCREW ZAC EFRON, RUPERT BROOKE!

| Posted on 2009-12-07 | by a guest

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In my previous comment I wrote " Brooke's "the Soldier""
When of course I meant Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
My bad:)

| Posted on 2009-12-07 | by a guest

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You can't deny the beauty of this poem, but reading other poems, like Brooke's "The Soldier" or Sassoon's "The Hero" puts in into perspective.
In addition I think Tennyson's "The charge of the light brigade" and Kipling's "The last of the light brigade"
Can be used in essays and whatnot to give the same perspective.
Other than that the guy before me pretty much said it:)

| Posted on 2009-12-07 | by a guest

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In hindsight it's not a truthful representation of war at all but it does show exactly what the general attitude was in 1914. And yes Brooke was naive, but Owen wrote very similar poetry romanticizing war to begin with; it was only when he'd spent time in the trenches that he became disillusioned with the jingoistic attitudes of the media at home and started writing works like 'Dulce...' and 'Anthem For Doomed Youth'. Brooke would probably have changed his ideas too if he'd survived long enough.

| Posted on 2009-11-24 | by a guest

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Very good poem. Gives good interpretation of war. However, I think that its a bit exaggerated.

| Posted on 2009-11-12 | by a guest

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Anyone, espcially the 12 year old, who wants to pick this poem apart like they're enslaved to it, should really keep their oppinion to themselves. Say you can do better? then do it! I dont see your stuff published and read for over 50 years No one wants to here your hatred toward something you cant understand. I do not fully love this poem, to me, it's just decent. But I can appreciate the beauty in it, and am slowly understanding it with every read. Now that I've gotten that off my chest, Im going to go read it and try to make more sense of it.

| Posted on 2009-11-11 | by a guest

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Y would you want to read this rubbish its the most s**t poem i have ever read i hate reading and im only looking at this because i have to do an essay on this

| Posted on 2009-11-11 | by a guest

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wot is rupert brookes opinion of war?. tough question as he is dead. for defiate rupert must know that war is overall sinfull. everybody must think that? or they sound wordly and selfish. would there be war in heaven? no. only possibly previously between God and the fallen angel. bt prob not. people killing people is bad. conflict to the point of death and torture is bad. and war brings much sadness and crying.(obviously) however, i believe rupert was a believer and a admirer of loyalty to a home country. i think he felt it wos important and honourable. possible he looked up to people who had the courage to die for not their own desires but for the good of others. but also i think his opinion wos mangled and determined by prior propaganda to make his enlist with tha army. by not experiencing the horrors of war i think he did not fully understand the pain, loss, frustration, anguish, tiredness,and all the other feelings felt by soldiers hu have experianced that. maybe if he did his war would be different? i think so very much. however im not sure if he would still think that it is honourable to die for ones country or if he would reccommend it.

| Posted on 2009-11-09 | by a guest

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Whoever wrote "I really like this poem. coming from a different background I believe that it shows how english people are up themselves against all other human beings. Its like they are the superior race to others. the mention/repetition of "england" suggests this." is wrong. The poem is about the patriotic views that were and are the case in many wars. It does not show what all English people are like. That is the dumbest assumption ive ever read. And im not English and being "up" myself I just cant stand people assuming that whole groups of people can be something when they have only a few peoples point of view.

| Posted on 2009-11-06 | by a guest

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Im only 12 and i can write great. btw,i can write better than all of u losers!!

| Posted on 2009-11-01 | by a guest

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im doing this poem for my essay! this really helps! taa xx

| Posted on 2009-11-01 | by a guest

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freeecksss you who write in this blog dont you realize that everyone can reead you and you have some nerds tone dont you realize that your beahaviour is being inmature please!!!!.

| Posted on 2009-10-22 | by a guest

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i hAven't read much of rupert's poems but i love the ones i have read so far.

| Posted on 2009-09-28 | by a guest

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tbh nothing really matters the war was terrible millions died and in my eyes for no reason we should all get on and wars are a bi product of human greed
it doesnt matter how u interpuret it he was writing about what he believed in whether this is right or wrong.

| Posted on 2009-09-23 | by a guest

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tbh nothing really matters the war was terrible millions died and in my eyes for no reason we should all get on and wars are a bi product of human greed
it doesnt matter how u interpuret it he was writing about what he believed in whether this is right or wrong.

| Posted on 2009-09-23 | by a guest

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This is a shocking poem, he didnt even experience war, he pussied out and was killed by a bloody mosquito on the way to war instead of being blown up by a bomb.

| Posted on 2009-09-18 | by a guest

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This is one man purely using his talent within writing to influence people to sign up for the war, he has not gone about it to offend any other country he is simply being patriotic.
To suggest english men are 'up themselves' and think they are a 'superior race' is just ludicrous. The poem represented his pride in his country and using it to encourage other young men.
He died a tragic death and we should acknowledge him purely for his contribution within English Literature.
Im a sixteen year old girl and even I can see this!

| Posted on 2009-09-16 | by a guest

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as clever and creative as he may be, rupert brooke was exremely naive... he influenced so many in his generation to go to war uneducated about what was truly before them.
its great to contrast this idealism with the works of sassoon and wilfred owen.

| Posted on 2009-09-15 | by a guest

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hahaha and the person below me says that the other comment was written by a douchebag... they cant even spell 'piece' right..
if only you could all realise that the poem is actually famous and rupert is legendary, your all idiots who criticise one who is so noble in this world.

| Posted on 2009-08-12 | by a guest

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Yer, the dude 2 below me is dumb..
he probably loves himself anyway

| Posted on 2009-08-06 | by a guest

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that person below me is a douchebag, the poem is enlistment poetry trying to get people excited about going to war and saying that it is noble to die in war and should that happen the land they die on will be more valuable because it is a peice of england

| Posted on 2009-07-27 | by a guest