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"The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
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Transcript
Figurative Language
Imagery
- Nature Imagery
- Afterlife and Heaven Imagery
Assonance
- England/English repeated 6 times
Line 5: Metaphor, Personification
Line 7: Metaphor
Line 11: Personification
Line 14: Analogy
Structure
"The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
Poetry Analysis
- Title shows that the speaker is one person (first person)
- Audience is not directed
- Poem is a Sonnet (Octave and Sestet)
- Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGEFG
- Setting: pre WWI
- Conflicts: Man vs Time, Man vs Nature
- Literal Meaning: wonders how he would if he dies in the war and afterlife
Deeper Meaning
Theme
- Death
- Patriotism
- Man vs Natural World
Elevated language
Tone: proud and patriotic
Tonal Shift: line 9
title shows that it's not about any soldier but the ideal solider that understands that he may die and but also believes his death will benefit his country and how it supports the tone and theme of the poem
No other poetic devices found for an even more deeper meaning.
A general description of a peaceful death of a soldier to a even more blissful "English heaven."
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