Formalist Critical Approach to Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier"

FORMALIST CRITICAL APPROACH TO: RUPERT BROOKE: THE SOLDIER         I am analyzing the poem 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke. This poem is about a man who loves his country dearly. The country is England. He believes that if he should die in a far away battle field that people should remember of him only that he was English. Brookes says in his forth line, 'In that rich earth a richer dust concealed.' This means that …showed first 75 words of 500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 500 total…earth a richer dust concealed.' As I mentioned earlier, Brooke believes that his dust will somehow enrich the land because it will now have a piece of England in it.         The poem goes on to say that his dust was shaped and made aware by England. It also says that England gave him it's flowers to love. The author loves his country very much and uses extremely emotional symbols to make his point. -