Comparative Comment between poems "The Soldiers by Rupert Brooke" and "The Colonization in Reverse by Louise Bennett."

By Hugo Churches
ID. A01036011
Grp. 103

The comparison between these 2 poems will make me lead to understand a little bit their meanings and origins and perhaps the reason why they were writing in first place. I will begin with analyzing the first poem which is “The Soldier by Rupert Brooke” and then I will continue analyzing the next one which is “Colonization in Reverse by Louise Bennett” and after reading these poems I will perform a comparison between these 2 poems.

If you happen to read both poems you should know that these are similarly related, why? Because in the poem “The Soldier by Rupert Brooke” explains that he will die for his country, honor it, not only by doing things that supported England but also by dying for supporting it. As if it wasn’t enough that these character, Rupert Brooke said in his poem that he shall be remembered, although Rupert Brooke liked and glorified death he surely didn’t met the war his country was fighting, he didn’t even experienced the crude sensation of being on one although he was prepared and said that he will die for his country. Further investigation of this author leads that he gave everything to his country or was willing to give all since he had everything from England. But because this character haven’t met the war that he intended to fight, would it be possible to change his way to look at his country If he had experienced such terrible actions in the war, or if he would continue to write his love notes about England? It is certainly though to keep the mind of something that you like and suddenly know the consequences of such actions and likeness but perhaps Rupert Brooke would have changed his mind about England, although he believed that he could accomplish something for his country he wasn’t even able to get to the warzone he instead died before something could struck his mind and his poetry. But now, talking about the poem, he expressed his feelings about England, he described it as an English heaven, so long as a peaceful place. Regarding this previous sentence does the conflicts in there haven’t troubled the area enough to the view of Rupert Brooke or is it that Rupert Brooke was trying to make us memorize how this English country felt with peace and harmony before something atrocious happened? I do believe that it is certainly an instance to make us memorize the way he looked at his country and if dying for it would have cause us to remember him as landscapes of England although it is already mentioned in his poem.

But now, let me take a look at Louise Bennett’s poem, the “Colonization in Reverse”, in this poem I can clearly, well almost since I got to use a more newer version of her poem, a version easily understandable since her language was a little disarranged, in fact I can say that English was something new, something yet to be mastered for her but although there are bad written words is understandable, quite an old English I might add. So, I can see that Louise Bennett is trying to tell us via his poem that civilians from Jamaica are leaving from their country, as the poem continues he expresses that as more people are travelling to England they are getting more power for themselves and are gaining English money (Pounds), and since everybody is going to England the Jamaica locals are starting to set-up the “cheap-fare-to-England, this actions are foreseen as the colonization by Louise Bennett but although it doesn’t mean that Jamaican locals are trying to invade or attack England they are actually seen as filling up the England country, gaining wealth and jobs as they move inside the country. This is seen by Louise as a colonization not only because they are actually moving to other place but also because they are reaching new things, things like money, jobs, valuables and other things, she’s rather happy for this since they are actually getting economical stability. To end this, I can say that in her poem, she cited that since England had problems with warfare she wondered on how England will manage the colonizing in reverse.

Although both poems showed a little context and ambience where it was happening, I took the idea that Jamaican locals where going to England to have economical stability and also because of its beauty, I managed to figure this out because of the previous poem “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke because he explained that he will die for his beautiful country which leads me to think that who wouldn’t want to go to England. This theory is probably the best to think although there surely have to be other motives. So, the connection between these 2 poems might have been the influence to move to a more producing and beautiful country although there is no reason to think that the poem by Rupert Brooke might have been seen by one of the Jamaicans, but still the slight connection between these 2 poems might have been to one or to none. As now for a final conclusion and reflection about this, both poems contain certain details that inform the reader about the environment they live on, Louise Bennett declares also that these actions are going to change history in England by moving out to there.

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