The soldier paragraph

Some small piece of a foreign field that is forever England. The soldier is an important poem for a number of reasons. It exemplifies the attitudes of people at the beginning of ww1 as a well as being a very interesting example of the the sonnet form. The main idea of the poem is how glorious it is to die for England. The writer uses lots of powerful figurative language to support the big idea such as repetition of England, imagery, metaphors, the 2 ideas of the two stanzas. He uses metaphors such as "a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware" which describes the idea of stanza 2, how English his dust is. The repetition of "England" supports the whole idea of English heaven and how glorious it is to die for your country. He also uses imagery such as "corner of a foreign field which describes how even though that they are not home there is still a part of England. The writer uses lots of figurative language to support the ideas which create the big idea