Poetry of the Great War- analysis -Rupert Brooke 'The Soldier'

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What do you know about the Remembrance Day? 

(what, how, when?)

WW I- beginning and end dates

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them.

The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11am on 11 November 1918.

Armistice is Latin for to stand (still) arms.

To this day we mark Armistice Day around the United Kingdom with a Two Minute Silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.

Rupert Brooke - The soldier 

Find the poem here

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13076/the-soldier

What do you think the poem is about?

Themes

What are the 3 Themes in 'The Soldier'?

• Love of the country
• War idealism
• Connection to nature

It is a sonnet!

‘The Soldier‘ is similar to a Petrarchan sonnet (also known as Italian Sonnet ) This means it has 14 lines which are separated into 2 stanzas (sections). 

After the 1st stanza a change of concept appears. How do you call the change what is the new concept? Look it up...

Answers

a ‘turn’ or volta - which changes the subject of dying for one’s country into the nature of that country.

The rhyming pattern for this is not typical of a Petrarchan sonnet, which usually has a ABBAABBA CDECDE pattern.

Find out what rhyming pattern this poem has?

Answers

“The Soldier”  follows ABABCDCD EFGEFG rhyme scheme. 

Task ahead

Look in your reader and answer the questions about 

"The soldier"

Let's continue

In Flanders' Fields

by John McCrae

Which poem that we previously dealt with is a sonnet?

1. Dulce Et Decorum Est
2. The Soldier
3. Does It Matter?

7. Difficult? Try the following

Dulce et Decorum Est

The Soldier

In Flanders' Fields

Battlefield, battle is still raging.

Battlefield, battle has finished

(make-shift) graveyard

8. Rank the poems from most negative to most positive.

Most negative

Most positive

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Does It Matter?

In Flanders' Fields

The Soldier

Explanation

• Dulce Et Decorum Est
  Graphic language and scenes
  
  
• Does It Matter? 
  Negative & sarcastic, but uses less strong language
  
  
• In Flanders' Fields
  It talks about the dead, but also about hope
  
  
• The Soldier
  Kind of propaganda (richer dust)

I think I understand this poem well enough for the test.

Yes

No