Rupert Brooke

Robert Frost: “The American Bard” The amazing poet Robert Frost is the writer of “The Road Not Taken” and many more. A four-time Pulitzer Prize victor in verse, American Robert Frost delineated reasonable New England life through dialect and circumstances natural to the normal man. Frost have earned many awards for his great work such as a Pulitzer Prize, Honorary degree, and Gold Metal for Poetry. Robert Frost, The author of “The Road Not Taken”, make romance, tone, and the metaphors stand out…

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honorably and nobly in sacrificing themselves for the nation, whereas Sassoon, horrified with the brutal reality of outdated tactics and modern weapons wrote poems such as “They” which spoke against the war and challenged the…

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…

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…

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…