Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Soldier
- Themes
- War
- Glorifying England
- Patriotic ideas
- Only life will be the appropriate thing to give to his great motherland
- Language Features
- Personififcation
- 'A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam'
- Natural Imagery
- 'In that rich earth a richer dust concealed'
- Metaphors
- 'A pulse in the eternal mind'
- Sibilance
- 'There is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England'
- Story
- The speaker is speaking in the guise of an English soldier as he is leaving home to go to war
- It portrays death for ones country as a noble end and England as the noblest county for which to die
- The speaker talks about how his grave will be England herself
- The speaker talks about death as a sacrifice to England