Poetry Of The First World War

I think that brookes believes that he should give something back to England and has believes that his country is beautiful and deserves to be defended be itīs people. " a dust which bore shaped and made aware gave once her flowers to love her ways to roam…washed by the rivers ,blessed by the suns of home." He writes a lot about his deep love of England and how he regards it as the greatest place on earth. " In that rich earth a richer dust concealed." Because he is English he thinks that if he dies and decomposes the earth in which he is buried if it is not English the dust which he turns to will be richer than he French dust in which he died.

From this poem I can tell that Rupert Brookes has a very deep love for England and believes that he is part of it. Because of this he thinks very highly of himself. He also believes that dying for England would give something back and would cause you to be at one with god.and in death he wants to be remembered as part of England. DISABLED BY WOLFRED OWEN

Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, the son of a railway worker. He came under the influence of contemporary French poetry. He enlisted in 1915 becoming a second lieutenant of the Manchester ...