The soldier by Rupert Brooke, Esercizi di Inglese

Scarica The soldier by Rupert Brooke e più Esercizi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The Soldier Ex.1:I think a good soldier should need good health, physical fitness and some courage , but the most important traits he should possess are firstly agility, because he need to be able to react quickly and to be a quick thinker. Secondly, adaptation and initiative with a little creativity and intuition, especially in an unconventional war scenario like the World war I. Ex.2: 1-The poet is a soldier who is speaking directly from the battlefield. 2- The patriotic tone and the heroic vision of death is evident, which is configured as a sacrifice for the homeland. Any emotional reference to death is missing. On the contrary: dying for the homeland is an honor for the soldier of the title, corresponding to the lyrical self that crosses the entire sonnet.So he isn’t afraid of death. 3-His grave will be “under an English heaven”, bathed in the sun of his England , maybe in a foreign field that will be forever England. 4- He will have left a monument of England in a foreign land, transforming a foreign soil into England. 5-Yes it is. The soldier says that dying for England gains the status of religious salvation, wherever he dies. His death for England will be a salvation of his soul an it is therefore the most desirable of all fates. 6- Maybe he is speaking to a member of his family or to all the England soldiers or directly to the England. Ex.3 : This poem is a sonnet and the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFG EFG.The first part of this poem is composed by two quatrains( eight verses) - the typical scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet- and the second part is a sestet typical of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Ex.4: The reader can imagine the protagonist is fighting in the battlefield so it suggests a precarious life (line 1:”If I should die”). If the poet will die, he will have a glorious death since he has fought for beloved his country. The images referring to death portray death for one’s country as a noble end and England as the noblest country for which to die. He wants to find redemption in the name of sacrifice for his homeland. Ex.5: - landscape: richer dust, English air, rivers, sun of home - inner growth and private feelings: only life will be the appropriate thing to give to his great motherland in return for all the beautiful and the great things she has given to him, and made him what he is. Ex.6 Extremely idealized is the emerging image of England, outlined with rural elements typical of Georgian poetry with which Rupert Brooke was associated.With the two triplets we