Rupert Brooke: Poems Literary Elements

Rupert Brooke: Poems Literary Elements

Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View

The narrator is a soldier, who celebrates war and speaks from his own point of view

Form and Meter

Metrical form called Iambic Pentameter. "The Soldier" has been written in Sonnet form

Metaphors and Similes

The metaphors of England, beauty, leaping and peace have been used by the poet.

Alliteration and Assonance

In the poem "The Soldier"
"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;"
Me, Be and Field, Concealed are the examples of assonance

Irony

Those who do not fight for their country have been ironically called as half men. There is an irony that the soldiers fight for honor but they get this honor only after their death, when it would be of no use to them.

Genre

War poetry, Lyrical, Patriotic, Jingoistic poetry

Setting

1920's England

Tone

Patriotic, Optimistic, Cheerful

Protagonist and Antagonist

The Soldiers are the protagonists in Rupert Brooke's poems

Major Conflict

The conflict is between life and death and Youth and age.

Climax

The soldiers give away their lives for their country

Foreshadowing

The war foreshadows the death of the soldiers

Understatement

Give away your lives for your country
War gives purpose to our lives

Allusions

Allusions of Christ and resurrection

Metonymy and Synecdoche

A soldier is described as general English soldiers

Personification

Death has been personified

Hyperbole

There is hyperbole in the description of the world "Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary" in the poem "Peace"

Onomatopoeia

N/A

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