The soldier

Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was born in a well to do academic family.his father was a house master
at Rugby school, where Rupert was educated before going to king's College, cambridge.W B.yeast , the famous poet describe him as 'the handsomate young man in England ."he assumed a symbolic role that eventually turned into the myth to a bottle at Gavipoli . Brooke is remembered as a war poet whi inspired patriotism in the early phase of the first world war .His reputation chiefly tests on five war sonnest of which' The soldier 'is undoubtedly the best and the most anthologised

The soldier.
If 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 gentleless,
in hearts at peace,under an English heaven.