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The seventh stanza compares dead soldiers to stars and constellations,...

wikipedia - 11 Nov 2020
The seventh stanza compares dead soldiers to stars and constellations, that remain traces of being soldiers, moving in "marches". This memorializes the dead while keeping their role as soldiers for the British Empire present; "an empire that, by association with these eternal soldiers, makes its own claims on a sort of immortality. "[18]

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