Rupert Brooke, the soldier analisi, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Rupert Brooke, the soldier analisi e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was already a well established poet when the war broke out and was one of the leading figures of the so-called Georgian poets, very successful at the time but now regarded as being rather minor and of lesser literary importance. - Brooke was caught up in the initial enthusiasm for a war which, it was believed, would be short, painless and clear-cut and, in a rather affected, sentimental style, tends to glorify war and the romantic notion of sacrifice and heroism. - His first collection of poetry, simply called Poems, was published in 1911 but it was for the five sonnets (Peace, Safety, The Dead I, The Dead II, The Soldier) that he wrote during the early months of the war that he became famous. - However, he did not live to experience the real hardships of war as he died in April 1915 of septicaemia caused by a mosquito bite on his way to fight with his unit in Gallipoli. The soldier - It is a deeply patriotic and idealistic poem that expresses a soldier's love for his homeland—in this case England, which is portrayed as a kind of nurturing paradise. - Indeed, such is the soldier's bond with England that he feels his country to be both the origin of his existence and the place to which his consciousness will return when he dies. - The poem was a hit with the public at the time, capturing the early enthusiasm for the war (before the grim realities of long term conflict made themselves known). - Nowadays, the poem is seen as somewhat naïve, offering little of the actual experience of war. That said, it undoubtedly captures and distills a particular type of patriotism. - 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. - Indeed, the soldier sees himself as owing his own identity and happiness to England - This is, then, a deeply patriotic poem, implicitly arguing that nations have their own specific character and values. - Though most people might fear death—particularly of the violent kind that war can bring—the speaker of “The Soldier” is prepared to die because he believes he would be doing it for his beloved homeland. - The speaker thus doesn’t want people to grieve his death. - Nationhood, then, is portrayed as something that is inseparable from a person’s identity even when they die. - Even the heaven that the speaker hopes to go to is specifically an “English heaven.”