paper 110.The Soldier

English Literature

1. The Soldier Rupert Brooke

2. Presented by – Nehalba Gohil Class - MA Semester-2 Enrollment No – 4069206420210009 Email id – [email protected] Paper No- 110 Batch Year – 2021- 23 Submitted to – smt S.B. Gardi Department of English M.K Bhavnagar University

3. Introduction The Soldier sonnet by Rupert Brooke published in 1915 in the collection 1914 perhaps his most famous poem it reflects British sorrow over and pride in the young men who died in World war 2. Narrated by an English Soldier. In the closing sestet the poems speaker suggests that his sour is eternally linked with England

4. Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke is one the most famous war poets . He was born in 1887 and died in 1915 during World war one . He is known for his idealistic war poetry . In 1915 he was asked to join the Royal Navy by Winston Churchill and he accepted

5. What is war poetry Poets have written about the experience of war since the Greeks, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Their combined voice has become one of the defining texts of Twentieth Century Europe.
In 1914 hundreds of young men in uniform took to writing poetry as a way of striving to express extreme emotion at the very edge of experience.

6. The Soldier as war poetry “The Soldier” was the last of five poems of Brooke’s War Sonnets about the start of World War I. As Brooke reached the end of his series, he turned to what happened when the soldier died, while abroad, in the middle of the conflict. When “The Soldier” was written, the bodies of servicemen were not regularly brought back to their homeland but buried nearby where they had died.

7. What is the typical message in war poetry The typical message in war poem in the courage and heroism the soldiers reprented to their countries as they families and save their own nation . Moreover poems stated sharing the real view of the war for example the death of partners causing the soldiers psychological damage by the year of 1915

8. Structure and Language There is not a clearly defined structure to the poem although Owen does make use of rhyme mostly on alternate line endings. The poem opens with a description of trench life and the condition faced by the soldiers. Then comes the gas attack the poem offers a graphic description of the effects of such an attack

9. Conclusion In conclusion The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, is a highly evocative thought provoking piece. It clearly illustrates people’s feelings towards the war when it began and the sense of patriotism that was aroused in the British population. In hindsight with so many lives lost and the tragedies or war made obvious the concept of war and defending one’s country being a glorious thing is ludicrous.

10. References www.britannica.com www.skyminds.net www.poetryfoundation.org

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