LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield.
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These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.
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These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
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These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“The Soldier” explores the bond between a patriotic British soldier and his homeland. Through this soldier’s passionate discussion of his relationship to England, the poem implies that people are formed by their home environment and culture, and that their country is something worth defending with their life.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem is written in the form of an Italian sonnet. It is made up of 14 lines divided into two stanzas of eight lines (octet) and six lines (sestet). It has a regular rhyme scheme, ABAB CDCD EFG EFG.
Detailed explanation-3: -Brooke uses many techniques such as alliteration, personification, repetition and several metaphors in order to express the positive effects of war, as well, as trying to encourage and support war.
Detailed explanation-4: -Clearly, the author made the choice to include a metaphor, so the readers could see that if he dies in a different land, that land will become rich with his soul. In other words, if he dies, the land he dies in becomes England.