Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke was one of the early poets in the war. He felt privileged like
many to fight for their country. He died of illness in 1915 before having seen
any action. He wrote in a romantic style of optimists towards war. He is
remembered as a "war poet" who inspired patriotism in the early months
of the Great War. He was good at poetry but had not seen the fear of the war. He
would have been shocked to see what became of the war. His view towards war
would have changed if he had. The Soldier If I should die, think only this of
me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There
shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,
shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of
England's breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of
home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no
less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; He sights and sounds;
dreams happy as her day; And laughter learnt of friends: and gentleness, In
hearts at peace, under an English heaven. He was proud that he was part of
history of helping England, the country that had given him life and joy. He
hadn't and was never going to see the dreadfulness of the war. Mc Crae wrote
about Flanders Fields in 1915. It is the most famous poem. Mc Crae didn't see
the worst of the war. In one year 60 000 English men were going to die in one
day. This was written after the first major battle in Belgium. His poems show a
change of attitude, unlike the Soldier Flanders Fields talks about guns. It uses
poignant irony (emotional power) to explain how he is feeling. It is a
bittersweet poem. It does not contempate death in a future sense like The
Soldier but talks about the past. It is sad but still jingoistic Through the
sense of tragedy there is something brighter. The value is that war is tragic,
but not pointless like Owen points out. It is only pointless if we do not carry
out what the soldiers began. . There is a value, that death is tragic. He
justifies the wretched sacrifice by explaining that is it is necessary to carry
on and win the war, or the sacrifice will be in vain. The symbols he uses are
poppies and crosses, which are still seen today in Flanders Fields. At the time
when he was writing this poem, the fields were not so beautiful. The once flat
terrain had become the land of shells and bodies. Torrential rains turned
Flanders...
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