Rupert Brooke

School uniforms obstructing the first amendment, should not exist due to school districts having the ability to set requirements for those who want to receive education. Do school uniforms obstruct expression? The word expression in the constitution is being bent too much for this statement to be considered valid. In this case the Constitution is also saying that school administrators have the ability to express their rules because it is a part of their freedom. The constitution should not be…

radically changed the country and its people. One of these events, World War I, has influenced British literature and the authors, such as Rupert Brooke, giving lead to different themes and ideas. While Rupert Brooke started his career writing joyful poetry, his role as a soldier in World War I influenced his writing to focus on honorable sacrifice. Rupert Brooke was not unlike most authors before the war and wrote poems about love, happiness, and beauty. One poem written in 1909, The Voice,…

One effective technique that was used in the poem of Dulce Et Decorum Est and the Soldier was imagery. Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen uses imagery to create a visualization for the reader to deepen their understanding of the authors work that they may visualise the writer's purpose. For example; In the Dulce Et Decorum Est," His hanging face, like a devils sick of sin", Owen was describing how the soldier's face was so distressed that the soldier had turned into a demonic figure that is sick of…

It sends the message that dying for one’s country is a great act of loyalty and it is therefore an honour to do so. Brooke uses romanticized, jovial and rich words to describe the feelings of a soldier that sees dying for his motherland as an act of love and gratitude towards what it has done for him. The emotions transferred from the poem are warmth, love and happiness to die for country and countrymen.…

Throughout human history, many time periods had affected the humanity in ways no one expected to happen. Such great period was the time of the First World War or the Great War which started in 1914. This was one of those events where no one could predict the outcome and the consequences it would bring. But because of the veil of ignorance, people were unprepared for what was getting later on them. The terms “‘war poet’ and ‘war poetry’, observed Robert Graves in 1942, were ‘terms first used in…

Wilfred Owen’s "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" express opposing views towards war in general. In "The Soldier" Brooke represents the dream of war, and in "Anthem for doomed youth" Owen reveals the reality of war. Both the poems were written during the era of the Great War but they do not share the same ideas about death in war. Brooke glorifies war in a nationalistic way through his poem while Owen opposes war by portraying the horrors of it. The two poets also have…

some of those people used to express their thoughts, feeling, and memories of the war. This method can also reveal how the poet views the war. Take Rupert Brooke’s “Soldier”. In it, Brooke takes the position of a man who is willing to die for his country. The imagery of the poem suggests that if he should die, it would have been to benefit England, Rupert Brooke’s home country. The idea that the spot in which he dies, would be “forever England”, that the soil is now richer for having him there,…

why he dies, there’s no message to glean (O’Brien 79). According to the “How to Tell a True War Story” chapter of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a true war story is amoral, sickening, beautiful, and seemingly infinite. “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke claims to be a war story, despite failing to reach most of O’Brien’s qualifiers. However, its companion piece, “The Mother” by May Herschel-Clark, comes much closer to fitting O’Brien’s definitions, but ultimately still falls short.…

John Press points out that it was, perhaps, the common soldiers who first apprehended the horror and suffering of the war in its full intensity, and the officers saw the conflict in a more heroic light than the other ranks (1969, 135). Life in the trenches was miserable for Rosenberg, not only because he was a private, but he was a Jew and an intellectual who did not have anyone to talk to about art or literature. What also makes him different from the other poets is the fact that he was a…

fighting. This war had a big influence on poetry in future decades. The main difference between the attitude towards the war sparked from the poet's tone. The tone varies from seeing the war as glorious, to it being a dreadful experience. The Soldier by Brooke exemplifies an opinion where they saw the war as glorious and honorable, while Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est conveys a completely opposite view, where he sees the war as a dreadful experience. Both poems manage to express the war as two…