"Richer Dust"

"A dust whom England bore"

"laughter, learnt of friends: and gentleness"

"If I should die, think only this of me:"

"That there's some corner of a foreign field"

"blest by suns of home"

"And think, this heart, all evil shed away"

"A pulse in the eternal mind"

England/English is repeated throughout the whole poem

The poet personificates England by calling it as; HER

"England bore" - gave birth to him

England has given the poet many great gifts

"English heaven" - tries to comfort himself and other that if he dies in the war he would be dying for England and that he will go to an English Heaven

"sights and sounds; happy dreams" - idealist view of England

Brooke was a British soldier who died in 1915 - not due to war

This poem was originally called 'The Recruit' as it was used as a recruitment method

It was written in the beginning of WW1 which lasted from 1914 - 1918

Poem is called a sonnet (love poem) - it's an unusual example of a love poem

Sonnet