... patriotic side of the war, his poem "The Soldier" represents this fact very well. Them poem itself soldier is written in the form of a sonnet, 14 lines of iambic pentameter, divided into an octave and sestet. The poem is written as if it was the last words of a soldier, writing a message to his ... mood of the first months of the war. Rupert Brooke is happy to die for his country, but knows nothing of what comes before death on the Western Front: exposure, mud, the constant dangers of snipers, the regular loss of friends and comrades. There are certain passages in Birdsong that reflect ...

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