The Soldier

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Mind Map on The Soldier, created by Joe O'Dell on 20/01/2017.
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Mind Map by Joe O'Dell, updated more than 1 year ago
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The Soldier
  1. Themes
    1. War
      1. Glorifying England
        1. Patriotic ideas
          1. Only life will be the appropriate thing to give to his great motherland
          2. Language Features
            1. Personififcation
              1. 'A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam'
              2. Natural Imagery
                1. 'In that rich earth a richer dust concealed'
                2. Metaphors
                  1. 'A pulse in the eternal mind'
                  2. Sibilance
                    1. 'There is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England'
                  3. Story
                    1. The speaker is speaking in the guise of an English soldier as he is leaving home to go to war
                      1. It portrays death for ones country as a noble end and England as the noblest county for which to die
                        1. The speaker talks about how his grave will be England herself
                          1. The speaker talks about death as a sacrifice to England
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