Analysis of the Poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke I am analyzing the poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke. This poem is about a man who loves his country dearly. The country is England. He believes that if he should die in a far away battle field that people should remember of him only that he was English. Brookes says in his forth line, "In that rich earth a richer dust concealed." This means that if he is to die in a land other than England that the soil would be made better because there would now be a piece of England within it. The plot of this poem reinforces it's meaning because it deals with death and love. These are two powerful things th