Post WWI Poetry Essay :: English Literature

Post WWI Poetry EssayThe poetrys that I will compare are Rupert Brooke The Soldier,Seigfried Sassoon They, and How Sleep the Brave William Collins.Rupert Brooke - The SoldierThe for the first time few words that Brooke uses are If I should die, He uses ifas a possibility of death. He uses this because he thinks death is apossibility non a definite answer to war. The forth word he usesconnects the sixer and Octave together because think is used inboth stanza. At the end of the first business line he says me. This federal agencythat he is a patriotic soldier who has done his duty for his uncouth. That theres many corner of a foreign field. This rigorousswhere every he falls during the war, no matter if it is in a take to taskhole or on the edge of a river he will be able to die in a piece ofEngland. This shows tied(p) more nationalism towards the war and hisfellow soldiers. The line in that naughty earth a richer dustconcealed, means that the soldiers ashes are held in t he earth. Theyhave been called richer dust because the ashes of the population are theashes of people who have dies for their country and their fellowcountrymen. This also means that his body fertilizes the patriotismand honour of Englands people. A dust whom England bore, shaped,made aware, means that the man who died was raised by England andeducated. This personifies England as a mother nurturing a smallchild. The soldiers body is said to be possess by England in the line,A body of Englands. In the poem the word blest is used some thismay have some religious significance. The lines 5 8 are describingthe soldiers Englishness. It is patriotism at its roughly extreme.In the second stanza, the word think arises again, joining thesestet and octave. all told evil shed away, means that the person who hassacrificed their body for their country cannot sin any more becausethey are dead. This may also mean that they may have been forgiven forkilling the enemy to protect their country a nd its rights of freedom.A pulse in the eternal mind has a spiritual or religious meaning. Itcould mean that all of the people, who knew him in the war and hisfamily, still concoct him and will do forever. Gives somewhere backthe thoughts by England given, continues the patriotism andemphasizes his sacrifice for England. The last three lines describethe Good of England. The last line In hearts at peace, under an