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The Soldier Flashcards

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Who wrote The Soldier

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Rupert Brooke

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Address of poem

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‘If I should die’ - anyone can relate

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Patriarchy to England

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‘for ever England’
‘richer dust concealed’

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‘for ever England’

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Literally - England won the war
Figuratively as his body will be buried in France so England will always remain there.

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‘richer dust concealed’

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Suggests his body of English origin will enrichen the foreign lands.

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Nurturing Mother imagery

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‘England bore, shaped, made aware’

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Love for his country

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‘A body of England’s ‘
‘English air’
‘blest by suns of home’

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Idea of death at war

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‘all evil shed away’
‘in the eternal mind’

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End of the poem to show the greatness for fighting for ones country

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‘In hearts at peace, under an English heaven’

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‘In hearts at peace, under an English heaven’

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Brooke / the soldier thinks that England is already heaven so its only right to fight.

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English - Poetry (8 decks)

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