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Rupert Brooke
THE SOLDIER
best known poem
patriotic and idealistic mood of the time
wrote on the first months of Word War I
used to recluttering young boys
happy young man that go to fight
England because of us that die will became better
England= locus amoenus
idealistic vision
emerged the proud of an English man
santifiting this death
simple language
italian sonnet
alliterations and enjabemants
two stanzas:
Second
die for war will be a way to show gratitude to his homeland
First
The dead body of the soldier will make England a better place
Georgian poets
return to the semplicity of nature and emotion
"War Sonnets"
show the heroic side of war
the foreign field where the soldier is buried becomes "For ever England"
the foreign earth becomes rich
1887-1915
educated at King's College
embodied the virtues of the brave and gifted British gentelman
Officer in the Royal Navy
identification of the soldier with England
exalted the idea of war
war = purification
enphasis on war
inspired patriotism in the early months of the Great War Word
he wants to die for his country
exaltatiion of the homeland
classic romantic attitude to war
idealism: he hasn't experienced the cruelity of war : : :
Recluttering
quiet dreams, laughter, peace and gentless
patriotic vision of war
soft tone
