The Dead

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"The Dead" is a World War I poem by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealizes the noble sacrifice of fallen soldiers.

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The Dead canonical 5
The Dead (II) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War I poem
poem
alsoKnownAs Rupert Brooke
surface form: Rupert Brooke's "The Dead"
associatedWithConflict World War I
author Rupert Brooke
authorNationality English
contrastsWith later disillusioned World War I poetry
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublication 1914
focusesOn remembrance of the war dead
form lyric poem
genre war poetry
hasAuthorBirthYear 1887
hasAuthorDeathYear 1915
historicalContext early World War I optimism
includedIn Rupert Brooke's war sonnets
influencedBy pre-war English patriotic tradition
language English
literaryDevice idealization
imagery
metaphor
personification
literaryPeriod World War I literature
meter iambic pentameter
movement Georgian poetry
partOf 1914 and Other Poems
portrays fallen soldiers as noble and self-sacrificing
rhymeScheme Petrarchan sonnet tradition
surface form: Petrarchan sonnet
setting conceptual battlefield of World War I
structure sonnet
subject British soldiers in World War I
theme death in war
idealization of fallen soldiers
noble sacrifice of soldiers
patriotism
tone idealistic
patriotic

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Rupert Brooke notableWork The Dead
John Huston directed The Dead
1914 and Other Poems containsPoem The Dead
this entity surface form: The Dead (II)