Analyze the following sonnet. What is the Problem and Solution? What type of sonnet is it? How many different types of word connotations can one find used in the poem?
The Chinese Soldier by W.H. Auden (1938)
Far from the heart of culture he was used:
Abandoned by his general and his lice,
Under a padded quilt he closed his eyes
And vanished. He will not be introduced
When this campaign is tidied into books:
No vital knowledge perished in his skull;
His jokes were stale; like wartime, he was dull;
His name is lost for ever like his looks.
Professors of Europe, hostess, citizen,
Respect this boy. Unknown to your reporters
He turned to dust in China that your daughters
Be fit to love the earth, and not again
Disgraced before the dogs; that where are waters,
Mountains and houses, may be also me
I've figured out the problem to be the soldier's inner struggle with himself, but I am still blank on the solution, along with what type of sonnet it is and how many different types of word connotations there is
The Chinese Soldier by W.H. Auden (1938)
Far from the heart of culture he was used:
Abandoned by his general and his lice,
Under a padded quilt he closed his eyes
And vanished. He will not be introduced
When this campaign is tidied into books:
No vital knowledge perished in his skull;
His jokes were stale; like wartime, he was dull;
His name is lost for ever like his looks.
Professors of Europe, hostess, citizen,
Respect this boy. Unknown to your reporters
He turned to dust in China that your daughters
Be fit to love the earth, and not again
Disgraced before the dogs; that where are waters,
Mountains and houses, may be also me
I've figured out the problem to be the soldier's inner struggle with himself, but I am still blank on the solution, along with what type of sonnet it is and how many different types of word connotations there is