What is the analysis of 'Peace' by Rupert Brooke?

This poem uses religious imagination and describes turning away from the old to the new, like a religious conversion, and a kind-of rebirth as a soldier. �· Symbolic language describes the youths as chosen by god who has "matched us with his hour", in other Words, has made them suitable to take part in the war which thus assumes the nature of a crusade. God has given them bodily strength. �· Simile of swimmers diving into clear water- an image of baptism which washes away all previous sin and enables the baptised to be re-born in God. �· "Half-men" - Describes the men who don't want war as incomplete. Language used here is very powerful. �· Sleep is linked with death- pain of war will pass and fearing death is a bad thing. They will be cured by sleep- Purity in dying for your country. �· "Where there's no ill, no grief but sleep has mending." The simplicity of a life where a man need only worry about what is happening to his body, most of which can be cured by sleep, results in "the laughing heart's long peace.." �· Oxymoron describes death as "The worst friend and enemy" since it deprives us of life but also brings eternal peace.