Dead Body
Comparison between Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” and Thomas Hardy’s “Drummer Hodge”.
Rupert Brook’s “the soldier” and Thomas Hardy’s “drummer hodge” share the same theme, however their individual perceptions about the war are very different and are depicted through their poems.
Rupert Brook’s inspirational poem “the soldier” was written in 1914 and Brooke speaks from the first person as a soldier in World War I, as the simple title reveals. Brooke composed this poem before encountering the war itself, although he never did a get a chance to do so as he deceased before he got the opportunity. As compared to many other war writers such as Owen and Siegfried who fought in the war, Brooke’s concept about war was very positive. The soldier proves Brooke’s point of view.
In The Soldier the author embodies the persona of an English soldier who anticipates encountering death in war. When this trooper does die, he asks not that his country be sorrowful for his death, but that they consider that the piece of earth "corner of a foreign field" that his body lies on be considered won for England "is for ever England". As his dead body decays into dirt or dust, that dirt will become rich because it came from an English body. England once "bore" this soldier's body, loved him, educated him, offered his fresh English air, and landscape to walk through, and at one time cleansed him with its blessed waters and dried him off with the "suns of home." The soldier's heart will be cleansed of the wickedness that the war has inflicted upon it "all evil" by the death, and although his body will be nothing but a thought in God's mind, "a pulse in the eternal mind" his heart will go out to his beloved and glorious country, England. His death will bring hope and peace to the hearts of the English peoples still back in the homeland "under an English heaven". The Soldier in the traditional form of the fourteen lines of iambic pentameter divided into an octave and a sestet. Rupert
Rupert Brook’s “the soldier” and Thomas Hardy’s “drummer hodge” share the same theme, however their individual perceptions about the war are very different and are depicted through their poems.
Rupert Brook’s inspirational poem “the soldier” was written in 1914 and Brooke speaks from the first person as a soldier in World War I, as the simple title reveals. Brooke composed this poem before encountering the war itself, although he never did a get a chance to do so as he deceased before he got the opportunity. As compared to many other war writers such as Owen and Siegfried who fought in the war, Brooke’s concept about war was very positive. The soldier proves Brooke’s point of view.
In The Soldier the author embodies the persona of an English soldier who anticipates encountering death in war. When this trooper does die, he asks not that his country be sorrowful for his death, but that they consider that the piece of earth "corner of a foreign field" that his body lies on be considered won for England "is for ever England". As his dead body decays into dirt or dust, that dirt will become rich because it came from an English body. England once "bore" this soldier's body, loved him, educated him, offered his fresh English air, and landscape to walk through, and at one time cleansed him with its blessed waters and dried him off with the "suns of home." The soldier's heart will be cleansed of the wickedness that the war has inflicted upon it "all evil" by the death, and although his body will be nothing but a thought in God's mind, "a pulse in the eternal mind" his heart will go out to his beloved and glorious country, England. His death will bring hope and peace to the hearts of the English peoples still back in the homeland "under an English heaven". The Soldier in the traditional form of the fourteen lines of iambic pentameter divided into an octave and a sestet. Rupert