Rupert Brookes The Soldier opens with the following lines: If I should die, think only this of me:/That theres some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England. Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brookes poem as a whole ?

A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers deaths on the battlefield.

B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britains imperial power.

C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.

D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

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