The Soldier and Glory of Women

Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon are both well known poets from the first humans war. During a time of great conflict which claimed around 40 million casualties worldwide, these twain young soldiers depicted their thoughts and feelings into works which would incessantly be reflected upon, and regarded with appreciation of a time known as The Great War. With these two authors interpretations of the same period in history, i intend to compare and contrast two of their well-nigh famous poems The Soldier by Rupert Brooke and atmosphere of Women by Siegfried Sassoon.
musical composition both can be considered as 14 trend sonnets, they differ somewhat in their structure. The Soldier is constructed in two stanzas, an octet and a sestet with rhyme sequence ababcded and efgefg. A rather simple style adopted by some(prenominal) of the early war poets who wrote with an innocent, eminent view on war. Glory of Women however, appears to be a traditional sonnet but a closer look at the structure shows it to be in the form of both an English and Italian sonnet creating a competely unique sonnet altogether, known as an Italian Petrarchan Sonnet. What seems as an octet, is infact two quatrains identified by their rhyme sequence abab,cdcd followed by a sestet with rhyme sequence efggfe.



Both poets use the tradional sonnet theme of love and death, but it is Sasoon who adopts an ironic interpretation.
Brooke writes The Soldier as if autobiographical, with his use of first person pronouns such as I and me. His neat and regular structure reaffirms the notion of someone with an idealistic approach, thus apparent in the language and opening straining If I should die, think only this of me, by using the articulate If he immediately directs the reader to an imaginary situation. It could perhaps be said this poem is divided into two parts, the first stanza refering to the sensible part of people by using words ilk bore, shaped and made and the second focusing more on the psycological...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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