The soldier - Brooke

• If i should die, think only this of me:
• Some corner of a foreign field that's forever England
• Rich earth a richer dust concealed
• Washed by the rivers blest by the suns of home
• Her sights and sounds
• In hearts at peace under and English heaven
• What is the context?

  • Romanticised view of war as Brooke never made it to war
  • A Petrachan sonnet for his country