Abstract
The paper analyzes and summarizes line-by-line the poem "The Soldier," by Rupert Brooke, written during WWI.

From the Paper
"Like the poet Rupert Brooke, I have never been in combat, but his evocative imagery and heartfelt sentiments in "The Soldier" recreate the feelings of a soldier at his most homesick and emotional. The opening of Brooke's poem is especially sad; "If I should die think only this of me. That there's some corner of a foreign field. That is forever". It immediately evokes the voice of a British soldier perhaps writing to his family or sweetheart. Within this..."

Tags:war, poetry, England, Rupert Brooke, soldier, World War I

Abstract
The writers Lawrence LeShan and Rupert Brooke are examples of individuals who offered different, even contrasting, perspectives about the concept of war. For the purpose of this paper, an analysis is conducted wherein LeShan's "Why We Love War" and Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" are compared. The comparative analysis includes a discussion of how the two authors created and expressed their own concepts of war and how these different concepts serve as an illustration of how the different realities of the writers contributed and influenced to the formulation of these "war" concepts.

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"Rupert Brooke, on the other hand, presented a functionalist view of the war, by evoking feelings and ideologies of patriotism and nationalism. Where LeShan centers his discussion on the nature and concept of war throughout human history through the social science perspective, Brooke offers an individualist or humanistic view of the war. The writer, through his poem, "The Soldier", presents the psyche of an individual as he engaged in the war, the feelings and opinions of a person who is willing to die for his country. The poem illustrates how death becomes a means to an end, and this "end" is, ideally, to bring forth peace and unity to the whole world."

Tags:soldier, love

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This paper analyzes and contrasts two sonnets written respectively by the British WWI poets Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon: "The Soldier" and "Dreamers". The writer discusses how both poets modified the traditional structure of the sonnet to accomplish their poetic ends. Brooke's poem is elegiac in tone, focusing on national identity and acquiescing in death as a doorway to eternity, while Sassoon's is a bitter and ironic protest against the injustice and inhumanities of war.

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"Sassoon writes in a voice of protest, not acquiescence, unlike Brooke, despite his use of the sonnet form. "Dreamers" begins with a striking image, the image of soldiers going off to war, presumably by train to the front lines, rather than in the middle of an internalized thought like Brooke's poem. Brooke's poem focuses on an individual soldier who will be remembered, Sassoon's the vast, nameless masses of men who will die and be forgotten. Some of Sassoon's dreamers are good, some are bad, all have different problems and jealous conflicts at home, but they are in the process of being blended into one in the form of a purposeless army whose cause they can little understand."

Tags:loss, identity, imagery, spiritual, glory, normalcy

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This paper examines the poem "The Soldier" and looks at how it deals mainly with the thoughts and feelings of a man who loves his country dearly. "The Soldier" is a very short poem which consists of only two stanzas. The paper discusses how the poem seems to have been written towards the end of the war, when the poet wasn't sure if he was going to survive those last few days and how the lines are full of very patriotic words and descriptions of the English motherland. It also shows how it is a wartime poem which skilfully draws our attention to the morale of the soldiers during that particular period.

From the Paper
This poem deals mainly with the thoughts and feelings of a man who loves his country dearly. War seems to be something much deeper in "The Soldier" than is usually though of. "The Soldier" is a very short poem which consists of only two stanzas. This poem seems to have been written towards the end of the war, when the poet wasn't sure if he was going to survive those last few days, and the lines are full of very patriotic words and descriptions of the English motherland. It is a wartime poem which skilfully draws our attention to the morale of the soldiers during that particular period.

Tags:war, motherland, england, patriotism

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This paper discusses the theme in "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" through a character analysis of the tin soldier. The paper points out that, while the theme of the story seems to be about true love conquering all, the underlying theme is about manliness and the suggestion that love seems to feminize men while they are in pursuit of their beloved, transforming them into an acceptable love object. The paper also examines an additional theme that suggests that those who are too sensitive cannot live through the harshness of the world.

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"At the beginning of the story, the tin Soldier is "different from all the others because he was missing one leg. He has been the last one to be cast and there had not been enough tin" (112). In this way, the Tin Soldier can either be viewed as disabled, having only one leg, or as symbolically emasculated. Soldiers, weapons and perpetrators of destruction, are often viewed as one of the highest forms of masculinity. Violent by nature and protective of their countries, the tin soldier symbolizes the opposite of love and romance, even if they are all "handsome [in] red and blue uniforms" and stand "with rifles sticking up over their shoulders" (112). Soldiers are deadly in their masculine beauty. However, the Tin Soldier in Andersen's tale is far from perfect and is less than a warrior. Andersen reveals the tin soldier's love constant love for the ballerina throughout the story. However, the tin soldier is unable to demonstrate through his bravery that he is worthy of this love. Moreover, the lacking leg may be equated with missing biological parts of masculinity. This Steadfast Soldier cannot procreate and therefore, must be less than a man. The reader might ask why Andersen would want to portray his protagonist as less than a hero. The response is that soldiers, in their courage and readiness to fight, are not true candidates for romantic love. The Tin Soldier, lacking a leg cannot approach his beloved ballerina to declare his love for her. He is afraid that the ballerina will not accept him because of his disability. Symbolically, he is distanced from the ballerina by their placement in the boy's room. Additionally, the troll who possibly "caused the window to open suddenly and the soldier to fall out of it" may represent nature's cruelty to those who are different."

Tags:analysis, andersen, children, christian, fairy, hans, love, soldier, steadfast, story, tale, tin

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The paper relates that Colin Powell has served a lifetime in the military and politics, always proving himself as a dedicated and successful individual. The paper shows how in DeYoung's biography on this soldier, we are given an inside look into the life of a man who has come to be known as an American hero.

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"Karen DeYoung has been a reporter for The Washington Post since ... and is currently an associate editor. Her career in journalism includes many senior editorial positions, as well as a foreign policy reporter in Washington and a foreign correspondent overseas. She has also served as bureau chief in London and Latin America. With more than ... years of experience in political journalism, it is no wonder DeYoung chose to write the ultimate reporter's piece, a biography about the the most trusted man in America."

Tags:soldier, analysis, army, review

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This paper discusses how in "The Swaggering Soldier", Plautus demonstrates that he is a skilled comedian, capable of employing a wide variety of literary, illusory and allusory techniques both to create and maintain laughter. The paper contends that in order for a comedy to be funny, an underlying theme referencing social tensions is essential, absence of this would render the play un-funny. It briefly discusses humor theory and relates this to what makes a comedy funny; indicating how a social context is vital to this.The paper then examines this context by analyzing the play, paying particular attention to how different themes of love are pursued by the different characters, with different results. It attempts to show that this is the primary theme of the play and it is precisely the existence of such a theme that makes "The Swaggering Soldier" successful as a comedy in the first place.

From the Paper
"Raskin and Attardo's general theory of verbal humour contends that there are four stages in parsing humour; recognition of a social context, cognitive reasoning, affective responses and finally, laughter. A social tension is identified and negotiated leading to a therapeutic response from the audience, then follows laughter, either from amusement or relief. Assuming that the prime goal of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, then it follows that an serious and recognisable theme is essential for this goal to be realised. Plautus takes commonly held Roman views about love, blends these together with stock character types to create an absurd, reversed, saturnalial world for his audience to revel in. The audience is free to enjoy this revelry in safety, unlike tragedy there will be a happy ending. The viewer is free to laugh and be entertained, all the while knowing that appropriate social justice will prevail for both the good and the bad. "

Tags:humor, theory, love

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This six-page undergraduate paper is a discussion of the role of the German soldier who was heavily influenced by ideology and propaganda. The writer discusses that the reality of war both on the battlefield and on submarines revealed to young soldiers how falsely they had been misled. The writer shows that they therefore rejected what they had been led to believe and other soldiers did so later, as did the society.

From the Paper
"Ideology and propaganda played major roles as motivation in the German soldier's life. "German soldiers went off to war in 1939 without the enthusiasm that characterized 1914. They invaded Russia knowing that sacrifice, despair and death awaited them...sustained by a broad spectrum of values" (Neiberg 552). The soldiers firmly believed in those values, a fundamental one being that they were defending the Fatherland. These soldiers arrived at very different conclusions regarding war and the meaning of the military in two ways. One was their new understanding as a result of the injuries and casualties witnessed in battle, while the second resulted from examination of past experiences."

Tags:ideology, war, disillusionment

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This paper argues that the participation of the average German soldier in barbarity in this conflict was because of the acceptance throughout all levels of the German military that they were participating in a crusade.

Tags:action, de, humanization, lebensraum, propaganda, race

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This paper examines how the four texts, "A Dead Boche" by Robert Graves, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brook, and Vera Brittain's "Letters from a Lost Generation," are typical of World War I literature. It analyzes the three texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings. The influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writer is also discussed.

From the Paper
"Graves employs various literary techniques in A Dead Boche to emphasize the brutal reality of the First World War. By addressing the poem to the reader in the first stanza, "To you" the reader becomes instantly involved with the poem and is forced to reconsider their attitude to war and to confront the real atrocities of a truly total war. By 1916 many soldiers were disillusioned by the war and particularly by the continuing demand for patriotic poetry which talked of "valor," "honor" and "sacrifice" and which in the style of the Victorian poets like Alfred Lord Tennyson, glorified death with chivalric language. Graves speaks directly to those who think of war with ideas of "blood and fame" and to those who, for a long time succeeded in ignoring the horrible reality of the war in their willful ignorance and hypocrisy."

Tags:brittain, brooke, graves, robert, vera, dead, boche