Rupert Brooke

Looking back at World War I from a modern day perspective depicts a time of hardship and despair, but from the European viewpoint at the time WWI was a time filled with hope. The early twentieth century was a time that promoted national development in Europe and this desire motivated many countries to attempt expansion. This caused tensions to rise between conflicting nations, which then formed two competing forces to arise. Each alliance went into World War I with the expectation of a quick…

To Attack or Not to Attack It is December of the year 2004. A sudden, ground-trembling blast rocks the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. There is confusion and people bustling about the streets. The wounded cry out in pain as they search for help in the thick, dusty smoke. The bodies of men litter the area surrounding what was left of the car that had exploded. Fourteen United States soldiers and four American contractors were killed (Sanders). Tie together Throughout history, warfare has…

There have been many great poets and poems throughout history but Robert Frost and his poems take the cake because they are well thought out and have many different meanings and figurative language. On poemhunter.com he is considered the second-best poet of all time beating people like Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare. On poets.org, it said that Frost began his interest in writing and poetry when he was in high school. He then went to Dartmouth College and later transferred to Harvard.…

In the 1910’s the First World War was in process and most of the men that sacrificed their lives for their country and family were forced to commit undignified murders of fellow soldiers. Many of the soldiers that went to fight would write poetry about the glorification and traumas of the war to send back to their families at home, many of these poems were later published and used to implicate the horrific world war. Language techniques are used in many different English pieces, through powerful…

The First World War influenced a drastic, revolutionary changes in the poetry of the twentieth century. This transformation is evident from the works of popular war poets, like Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, among others, that the self-satisfied poetry of the recent past needed to be broken and they could not simply write poetry celebrating nature. War poetry captures the physical and emotional, brutal reality of the war, the pain, madness, and degradation of human kind. The…

Robert Frost moved to England in 1912, it was here that Frost was inspired by British poets Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. With the help of his peers, Frost wrote some of his best works in England. Frost was an unsuccessful farmer, so he went back into education from 1906 to 1911 at the New Hampshire Normal School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. New England is where a majority of Frost’s poems are based in. New England is where Frost was able to flourish in his writing career, so…

Humans often pride themselves in being civilized and peaceful beings, controlled by rational thought and logic. War, however, brings out the animalistic characteristics of society that are otherwise kept hidden. One of the deadliest conflicts in history, World War I brought out the side of humanity that regularly remains unseen. The utilization of modern technology in warfare resulted in an unprecedented amount of bloodshed and destruction, and those who managed to survive were changed both…

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the different.” (“The Road Not Taken”) The road symbolizes how the individual had to evaluate and determine his decisions. Making his decision was a major decisive and extensive moment during his life span. He wrote just about ten books in his lifetime that many people admired. American poet and journalist Robert Frost depicts aspects of his life and philosophy on man’s choices, truth in nature, and…

Adeline Virginia was an English writer foremost modernists in the twentieth century. She was born in January 25, 1882 to March 28, 1941. Woolf was significant figure in London society and central in the influential Bloomsbury Group intellectuals. Best-selling novels like Mrs. Dalloway 1925, The Lighthouse 1927, and Orlando 1928, the book-length A Room of One’s Own 1929, its dictum. Woolf severe bouts of mental illness her life committed suicide in 1941 at age of 59. Adeline Virginia Stephen…

The History of literature about war is a paradox in itself. Although war forms the subject of countless novels, poems, films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers try to reach the ideal point, they represent that nothing can do justice to the pain and suffering that the war brings. The terror and the violence that it brings. The period before the World War I was romanticised. All the men were encouraged to go out on the war. Even those who were not old enough to take part…