THE SOLDIER

Poetry
 I Sc 2nd Year 
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THE SOLDIER

Rupert Brooke

RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915) was born in a well-to-do academic  family. His father was a housemaster at Rugby School, Where Rupert was educated before going to King's housemaster at Rugby School, where Rupert was educated before going to King's College Cambridge. W.B. Yeats, the famous poet described him as 'the handsomest. W.B.Yeats, the famous poet described his as ' as handsomest young man in England."He assumed a symbolic role that eventually turned into the myth of a young and beautiful fallen warrior. He died of septicaemia on April 23, 1915, off the island of Lemnos in the Aegean on his way to a battle at Gavipoli. Brooke is remembered as a 'war poet' who inspired patriotism in the early phase of the First World War. His reputation chiefly rests on five war sonnets of which 'The so;dier' is undoubtedly the best and the most anthologised.

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;