the soldier

• 'the soldier'


  the definite article represents the ideal soldier
• 'think only this of me'


  imperative ordering people to have this idea of a soldier
• 'if i should die'


  acceptance of death and willingness to die in battle
• 'some corner of a foreign field'


  makes it seem unimportant until the soldiers die there
• 'rich earth a richer dust concealed'


  the remains of his body are superior to the ground he lies in
• 'a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware'


  England made him who he is today
• 'her flowers to love'


  personifies England being feminine, emphasises the love
• 'washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home'


  foreign land cleansed by English soldiers
• 'a pulse in the eternal mind'


  suggests his presence in the soil of foreign land will always live on
• 'gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given'


  giving back to their country by giving their lives
• 'England'


  repetition shows the pride and patriotism involves with dying for his country
• 'English heaven'


  suggests England is like a paradise and to die there would bring peace in him