The Soldier
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.
“The soldier” is a poem by RUPERT BROOKE, a have already mentioned him in my previous analysis, this poem has two stanza, the first stanza had two separated ABAB rhyme scheme, both with different rhymes, the second stanza used a ABCABC rhyme scheme, which I had never read before, the poem also used a lot of personification and metaphor.
The poem was filled with the love of the country, so he wanted to say that if he die anywhere, it will be England’s because he spread his nutrient in that part of ground, and his body is been grazed by the country, so the whole poem is just a praise of the author to his country and the sprite of face death unflinchingly.