soldier- quote explanations

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

  decomposing English body becomes part of field where its buried. colonial image of England taking over through war suggests his death is meaningful
• "richer dust"

  religious image (ashes to ashes..) suggests his death was like a holy sacrifice. "richer" suggests England was elite/ the best
• "washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home"

  extended metaphor, Englands a nurturing mother. sounds almost baptismal- a holy process
• "all evil shed away, a pulse in the eternal mind no less"

  every English individual joins a great collective in heaven
• "English heaven"

  Brooke is idealising war and England. thinks the soldiers sacrifice forgives all sins committed in war"