Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The narrator is a soldier, who celebrates war and speaks from his own point of view
Form and Meter
Metrical form called Iambic Pentameter. "The Soldier" has been written in Sonnet form
Metaphors and Similes
The metaphors of England, beauty, leaping and peace have been used by the poet.
Alliteration and Assonance
In the poem "The Soldier"
"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;"
Me, Be and Field, Concealed are the examples of assonance
Irony
Those who do not fight for their country have been ironically called as half men. There is an irony that the soldiers fight for honor but they get this honor only after their death, when it would be of no use to them.
Genre
War poetry, Lyrical, Patriotic, Jingoistic poetry
Setting
1920's England
Tone
Patriotic, Optimistic, Cheerful
Protagonist and Antagonist
The Soldiers are the protagonists in Rupert Brooke's poems
Major Conflict
The conflict is between life and death and Youth and age.
Climax
The soldiers give away their lives for their country
Foreshadowing
The war foreshadows the death of the soldiers
Understatement
Give away your lives for your country
War gives purpose to our lives
Allusions
Allusions of Christ and resurrection
Metonymy and Synecdoche
A soldier is described as general English soldiers
Personification
Death has been personified
Hyperbole
There is hyperbole in the description of the world "Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary" in the poem "Peace"
Onomatopoeia
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