1914 V: The Soldier Poem by Rupert Brooke

The idea that a dead soldier: Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given... is a bit fanciful to say the least. From my experience of military life I should prefer if most of the soldiers I met kept their thoughts to themselves! A famous poem, but its sentimentality has not worn well seen through the carnage that followed. And Brooke's privileged life was by no means the life that most men and women had whom England bore. I do not think they would have written like this.

This poem is such a beautiful and sad poem, so touching

Let's remember the soldier before the atrosity of war took away his inocence and his life!

The first half of this poem is just impeccable but im afraid to me it wained a bit in the latter..but thats just personal taste i think...to me the first 8 lines is all that i needed to read....

We must read this in the context it is written - the only indication of war in this poem is - 'in a foreign field'. The writer was naive to the atrocities of war.... 'A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, ' From a 21st century perspective we can read 'made aware' as being ironic as propaganda was used for obfuscation not revelation: it duped men into enlisting.

It is made clear, that man is dust, and to dust he returns.

Soldier dies for the country and lives in the heaven; it's great work when anyone does anything for ubiquitous welfare; nice to read the first world war related poem

A true soldier loves his motherland.The patriotic feelings of an English soldier has been expressed finely in this poem.

Rather than war and soldier this poem speaks to me the sentiments of a migrant. The one whose voices are never heard, their thoughts never picked up. Great poem!

.........Terry.............