Rupert Brooke

Though the writers thought war may have been heroic and romantic in the begin, they soon saw the true face behind the gruesome thing we call war. Sadly they all had to find out the hard way that World War I was just awful and in no way, whatsoever, was it romantic. Soldiers were stuck in trenches where if they dared to try and exit they would be shot dead on the spot and the Germans were constantly throwing mustard gas into the trenches and if our soldiers didn’t put on the difficult gas mask…

their writing that sometimes causes one to question the simplicity of the piece as a whole. This paper will analyze Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess along with the WWI poetry Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg and The Soldier by Rupert Brooke as a way to show that historical poems have a way of presenting direct messages to and about the British nation as opposed to the events in which they are referring. Before looking into the possibly deeper political meanings that Robert…

“To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.” All sonnets follow one form and style but it is the result of emotional pain, personal values, state of mind and rational actions that separate and differ one sonnet poem from another. Sonnets were first introduced to the world in Italy traditionally written as love poems. This particular style of poetry was invented in the early 12th century, by the…

that people live. Death gives meaning to the world around us and it need not be feared as much as people believe. If time were not relevant to a life, that life would not hold the same meaning as a life that has an ending. In the poem “Peace” by Rupert Brooke explains the importance of death within life. It points out both the positives and negatives of death. Within the book, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane shows the deeper understanding of death that grows with age…

Grief will inevitably be experienced in one’s life, a conflict within one’s heart. The poems Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen and The Solider by Rupert T Brooke, express destitution which arises as a consequence of war. Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney and Tree Grave by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, portray the wretchedness experienced at times of death. Finally, The Long Song of Alfred J Prufrock by T.S Eliot and Mirror by Sylvia Plath, reflect upon heartbreak and the process of ageing. The poets…

Frost began to develop an interest in writing and poetry and his first poem was published in student magazine of Lawrence High School. He received his high school diploma in 1892 and during that year he started falling in love with poetry. In the year of 1894, he sold his first professional poem, out of the five he had printed, to The Independent for less than twenty dollars. His poem’s publishing was very successful and that inspired him to re-ask Elinor White to be his lawful wedded wife.…

Meaning that English society had been impacted by the patriotic rhetoric of Brooke and the idea of dying honorably and nobly in sacrificing themselves for the nation, whereas Sassoon, horrified with the brutal reality of outdated tactics and modern weapons wrote poems such as “They” which spoke against the war and challenged the…

Demise Death is the termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Death in all likelihood has a negative impact on life and the people around them. In the poems, Beowulf by John Green, The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, and The Wanderer. All three of these epic poems have a message and the message they are getting across to the reader is death is a very difficult journey, when a loved one passes it has a negative impact on others. In Beowulf an epic poem about an…

History is written by the victors. This stands as an interesting thought admitted by most; one with unknown origins, commonly misattributed to major historical figures such as Winston Churchill. But this is inherently wrong, especially in the field of literature. The thought itself is an account accusing the idea of the spoils of war going to the victor. The concept also takes on a form assuming war is only a destructive phenomenon for one side, leaving nothing to the defeated. However, the…

In ‘The Solider’ by Rupert Brooke the poet looks at his own significance of his life after death by asking the reader to think of ‘forever England’, unchanged and undamaged, ‘if I [he] should die’ rather than contemplating the negative side of death unlike Thomas does so in ‘Rain’…