rupert brooke, the soldier, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica rupert brooke, the soldier e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! RUPERT BROOKE He is a war poet who died during the first world war, his reputation as a war poet is linked to the five sonnets of 1914 in which he advanced the idea that the war is clean and cleansing, turning him as 'young romantic hero'. THE SOLDIER He wrote this poem at the beginning of the war. There are references to the countryside. The poet is not afraid of death. His dead body will enrich the soil with his dust. There is no emphasis on war in this poem. The poet speaks to English people. He sees England as a beautiful country. The tone is soft, patriotic and idealistic. The themes are the exaltation of England and the idealization of the mother country and war. This poem has 2 stanzas and the rhyme scheme is AB AB CD CD – EFG EFG. It is a typical Petrarchan sonnet (an octave and a sestet) If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day, And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. There are images referred to death such as: - dust (l.5) - die (l.1) - eternal mind (l.10) These images suggest an idealistic vision of the world Images connected to England landscape: - flowers (l.6) - English air (l.7) - ways to roam (l.6) - rivers (l.8) inner growth and private feelings: - made aware (l.5) - dreams happy (l.12) - laughter (l.13)