The Soldier | Poetry Themes and Conflict

Here is a great full lesson analysing the poem “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke. This is ideal for students in KS3, years 7,8,9 .

This lesson will help students to explore and understand the themes in the poem, including conflict. The lesson goes through the poem line by line in detail, looking at and discussing the key themes, poetic devices used as a well as a range of discussion and/or writing activities.

This can also be differentiated as required for lower levels by simply removing/simplifying some of the extended activities.