The Soldier Flashcards

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who is the writer?

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Rupert Brooke

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when was it written?

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1914

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themes?

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  • faith and worship
  • negative emotions
  • sense of place
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context?

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  • influenced John Gillespie Magee (a celebrated war poet)
  • this poem was recited in the St Paul’s Cathedral
  • he wrote poems in WW1
  • his poems promote that sacrifice of life is for a greater good
  • he died on the way to fight - he never actually fought in a war himself
  • pro-war
  • propaganda
  • patriarchal
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form + structure?

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  • this poem is a Petrarchan sonnet (an octet and a sestet)
  • octet rhyme scheme: abab
  • sestet rhyme scheme: abcabc
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what are the messages from this poem?

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  • this poem makes soldiers feel pride to fight for their country whom they love: England
  • presents war as a heroic battle to save the motherland
  • glorification of loss
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what does the use of the conditional tense ‘If’ show in the first line?

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  • future conditional tense
  • hypothetical
  • no fear
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what does the word ‘only’ show?

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  • the poet is very patriarchal
  • wants to be remembered for his efforts for his country
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what does the phrase ‘some corner of a foreign field’ show?

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  • inferior to England - controversial
  • if he dies, his English body will forever leave a mark
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what does the phrase ‘That is forever England’ show?

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he is proud of his country

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what does England being personified as ‘her’ show?

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  • that England is the motherland
  • idolising England
  • romanticised
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what type of imagery is ‘flowers to love’?

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buccolic imagery - countryside

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what does the repitition of ‘England’ show?

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shows continuity of English dominance and pride

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what does the metaphor ‘eternal mind’ show?

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  • once dead all is remembered in memory
  • soldiers will forever be remembered
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what does this phrase show: ‘Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given’

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  • voice of a martyr
  • happy to sacrifice himself for his country
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what does the phrase ‘In hearts as peace’ show?

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death will bring your soul to peace

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what does the phrase ‘English heaven’ show?

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  • England is perfect
  • religious imagery
  • offensive? - you must be English to go to heaven
18
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‘If I should die, _____ _____ of me’

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think only

19
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‘That there’s _____ _____ of a foreign field’

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some corner

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‘In that rich earth a richer dust _____’

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concealed

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‘A dust whom England bore, _____, made aware’

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shaped

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‘A body of England’s, _____ English air’

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breathing

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‘Washed by the _____, _____ by the suns of home’

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rivers, blest

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‘And think, this heart all _____ _____ away’

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evil shed

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‘Her sights and sounds; _____ _____ as her day’

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dreams happy

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‘In hears _____ _____, under an English heaven’

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at peace