the soldier

• he only uses definite articles and specific pronouns when referring to himself such as "the soldier" and "think only this of me" whereas when he talks about other countries he refers to him as "a foreign field"


  this shows ignorance in his patriotic views.

  alliteration suggests contempt

  suggest
• "some corner of a foreign field that is forever England"


  he is an embodiment of England

  he sees no threat in dying in battle instead he is proud. rupet Brooke never made it to war he died from a mosquito bite LOL so he romanticised war alot
• he suggests he was "dust" before " Engalnd bore shaped and made [him] aware "


  anyone not english is dust

  he is not threatened by them

  he is up himself
• religious imigary is used throughout the poem such as it is "blest by the suns " and he also compares England to heaven "under an english heaven"


  comparing england to heaven shows england is outer worldly, everything is pure and nourishing
• "a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware" anyone without England is a dust , he compares England to a mother figure
• this poem was apart of his six poem collection "1914" which contained six poems and five sonnets
• this is in a sonnet form as it displays his love and devotion to England through a memoir as he heads off to war