The Soldier paragraph

"Under an English heaven"
The soldier is an important poem for a number of reasons. It exemplifies the attitudes of people at the beginning of WW1, as well as being a very invested example of the sonnet form. The main idea of the poem is how glorious it is to die for England. There are several things that serve the poem. Repetition of England imagery, metaphors, the 2 ideas of the 2 stanzas. The poem is based on England. You can easily tell that the poem is based on England and that ding for England is glorious, this is because they have used England or English in so many ways, to specify that it is England; "English dust, English heaven"... Ther are many ww1 poems written but even though there are so many, they are all so different with all different options towards the war. The Soldier for example is just based on how glorious it is didnt for England in the war but however there are many poems that disagree with the idea of this one and so they are based on how horrible it is downing for your country and that the war was just a brutal nightmare.