The Soldier (poem)

The Soldier is a poem written by Rupert Brooke.

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The poem is actually the fifth of a a series of poems entitled 1914.

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:The Soldier:

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:If I should die, think only this of me:

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:That there's some corner of a foreign field

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:That is for ever England. There shall be

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:In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

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:A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

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:Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

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:A body of England's, breathing English air,

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:Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

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:And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

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:A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

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:Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

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:Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

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:And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

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:In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 anti-war poem Dulce Et Decorum Est, and is considered naive.

Related Topics:
Wilfred Owen - 1917 - Dulce Et Decorum Est - Naive

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