The soldier IF I should die‚ think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever 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 the suns of home. And think‚ this heart‚ all evil shed away‚ A pulse in the eternal mind‚ no less Gives somewhere
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The title of this poem is very powerful. It tells the reader that this is a very sad poem and that by going to war death is almost certain. Sassoon has done this to give the reader an idea of war‚ and‚ as the reader reads the poem their insight into the brutality and the sorrow of war increases. The first paragraph of this poem tells of the slow death of a soldier as the sun rises. Sassoon has skilfully manipulated language and his choice of words in order to create a visual image that is slowly
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The “38”‚ a poem by Layli Long Soldier‚ comes across the historical information and author’s reflection on the mass legal execution of the Native Americans in the United States. The form of the poem is unconventional‚ because it does not contain rhyme or rhythm. The poem consists of 89 grammatically correct and carefully ordered sentences. Each sentence is separate from another through the white space‚ which visually looks like each sentence is a paragraph. While reading the poem‚ empty spaces between
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The Soldier: Rupert Brooke - Summary and Critical Analysis The Soldier is a sonnet in which Brooke glorifies England during the First World War. He speaks in the guise of an English soldier as he is leaving home to go to war. The poem represents the patriotic ideals that characterized pre-war England. It portrays death for one’s country as a noble end and England as the noblest country for which to die. In the first stanza (the octave of the sonnet) stanza‚ he talks of how his grave will
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“A Soldier” a Literary Analysis We are kept on this earth to make a difference‚ but we do not know what for. The poem “A Soldier” by Robert Frost tells the story of a fallen soldier. A soldier has fallen on the battle field. We do not know why the soldier fell; only that fallen soldier knew why. In this poem Frost uses metaphor and personification to compare a soldier to a lance. First‚ Frost uses personification to compare a soldier to a lance. By doing this you do not know if the soldier is
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The Soldier - Poem by Rupert Brooke 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
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nonpartisanship. Many journalists sometimes forget this and their biases come out in their writing. This is exactly what Brooke Gladstone tackles in the comic Objectivity‚ which discusses how media sometimes doesn’t report all the facts at hand but instead includes personal opinions and bias and more importantly how big of an impact media has on society. Throughout the comic Brooke Gladstone talks about how media is supposed to give you the just the facts and let the audience form their own opinion
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later everyone must face in due time. In his poem‚ “The Soldier of Mictlán‚” Rigoberto Gonzalez describes the life of a soldier in the afterlife in a place called Mictlán‚ where most of the dead come according to Aztec mythology. His poetic techniques portray the fervent desire of an exhausted soldier to experience life again and leave behind the emptiness of the underworld. In the poem the rhyme is constant and in it is narrated as a true soldier asks for “bread for his hand‚” “a piece of
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