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- PEACE
- by kendrive
- in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk
- 43 days old
- Rupert Brooke's sonnet 'Peace' was inspired by his experience with the Royal Naval Division during the evacuation of Antwerp in October 1914. Brooke wrote the sonnet later that month, and by the end of the year had written four more to complete a sonnet sequence entitled '1914'. Peace would not come for another four years. PEACE Now, God be... more
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- IF I SHOULD DIE
- by kendrive
- in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk
- 54 days old
- Rupert Brooke is one of the best-known poets of the First World War. However, despite the subject of many of his poems, he never experienced combat at first hand. He served in the army in Antwerp but, whilst en route to Gallipoli, he contracted septicaemia from a mosquito bite and died on St. George's Day 1915, aged 27. He was also known for... more
