If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke Analysis
The poem is written by Rupert Brooke [1914]. This poem written with fourteen lines in a Italian sonnet. Brooke himself, predominantly a prewar poet. Soldier poem is a very short or simple poem, they concept is very different or important character of Soldier. The volta, the shift or point of dramatic change, occurs after the fourth line where goes from describing the death of the soldier and his life accomplishments. We can say the end is the poem are very different or perspective of the way. This sonnet encompasses the memoirs of a deceased soldier who declares his patriotism to his declaring that his sacrifice. Finally Soldier is a died of England, At the atmosphere remains constantly in the state of English soldier.
Rhyme schme : ababcdcd
