The Soldier Flashcards
(7 cards)
Love quotes soldier
“If i should die, think only this of me” addressing reader
“Her flowers to love, her ways to roam”
“Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home”
“This heart, all evil shed away”
“Her sight and sounds; dreams happy as her day” simile, two split structures (semi colon)
“And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness”
“In hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
War quotes soldier
“The soldier” single hero seen to die
“Think only this of me
“That is for ever england”
“In that rich earth a richer dust concealed”
“If i should die”
Place quotes soldier
“Theres some corner of a foreign field”
“That is for ever England”
“In that rich earth a richer dust concealed” metaphor / personification
“A Dust whom made England bore, shaped, made aware” triadic structure
“A body of England’s breathing English air”
“Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home of home”
“This heart all evil shed away”
“Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day”
“Under English heaven.”
Man quotes soldier
Describing as woman
“Her ways to roam” personified
“A body of England’s, breathing English air” personified
“This heart, all evil shed away”
“Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day”
Death quotes soldier
“The Soldier” singular pronoun
“If i should die, think only this of me”
“That is for ever England”
“In that rich earth a richer dust concealed”
“In hearts at peace under an English heaven”
Form and structure soldier
Form is sonnet = love poem for England
Subtle Volta seen between stanzas = first is physical beauty and second is about personas after life
Soft sounding rhyme “given” “heaven” = feminine rhyme = gentleness showing purity and female beauty of England
Poet the soldier
Rupert brooke
