the soldier

• "under an English heaven"
• "if I should die think only this of me"
• "this heart, all evil shed away"
• "in that rich earth a richer dust concealed"
• "her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day"
• Brooke did not go to war but did serve in the navy
• he presents war as a patriotic and good thing
• the theme in this poem is war
• the title represents a soldier that could be anyone showing so many people may die for their country