I'm writing an English research paper on Rupert Brooke!. I was wondering if his poem "The Soldier" had any literary devices in it!.
This is the poem:
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;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home!.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven!.
Please help me out, I'm having trouble putting the sentences together and understanding them, although I understand what the poem is about!.Www@QuestionHome@Com