The Better War Poet? Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson
Jerry Wei Nov 20, 2011
The Better War Poet?
Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson
Rupert Brooke * Background Research on WW I: * It began on July 28, 1914, and ended on Nov. 11, 1918. * Nearly 10 million soldiers died during the four years of the war. Most of the battles took place in Europe. They were fought on land, at sea, and in the air. * Two groups of nations fought World War I. One group was called the Central Powers. It included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. The other group was called the Allies. It was made up of more than 20 countries. The initial Allied powers were France, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Italy joined them in 1915. The United States joined the Allied cause in 1917. * There were many reasons for World War I. But the event that started the war was the assassination, or killing, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the ruler of a country called Austria-Hungary. * After the Central Powers surrendered, or gave up, a peace treaty was signed. Austria-Hungary and Germany gave up some of their land, and the names and borders of some countries changed. * Several new kinds of weapons and warfare were introduced during World War I such as poison gas, flame thrower, artillery and machine gun, tank, airplane, and submarine.
* Biographical Research: * Rupert Chawner Brooke was born in Rugby, England, on August 3, 1887. * Young Brooke, the middle child among three brothers, attended Rugby School, playing cricket and football, excelling in English, winning prizes for his poetry, and becoming Head Boy. * From Rugby, Brooke entered King’s College, Cambridge, where, under the influence of more modern writers and intellectuals, he abandoned some of the Decadent fin de siècle postures found in his earlier poetry. * Freed from the day-to-day influence of his family, he joined
The Better War Poet?
Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson
Rupert Brooke * Background Research on WW I: * It began on July 28, 1914, and ended on Nov. 11, 1918. * Nearly 10 million soldiers died during the four years of the war. Most of the battles took place in Europe. They were fought on land, at sea, and in the air. * Two groups of nations fought World War I. One group was called the Central Powers. It included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. The other group was called the Allies. It was made up of more than 20 countries. The initial Allied powers were France, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Italy joined them in 1915. The United States joined the Allied cause in 1917. * There were many reasons for World War I. But the event that started the war was the assassination, or killing, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the ruler of a country called Austria-Hungary. * After the Central Powers surrendered, or gave up, a peace treaty was signed. Austria-Hungary and Germany gave up some of their land, and the names and borders of some countries changed. * Several new kinds of weapons and warfare were introduced during World War I such as poison gas, flame thrower, artillery and machine gun, tank, airplane, and submarine.
* Biographical Research: * Rupert Chawner Brooke was born in Rugby, England, on August 3, 1887. * Young Brooke, the middle child among three brothers, attended Rugby School, playing cricket and football, excelling in English, winning prizes for his poetry, and becoming Head Boy. * From Rugby, Brooke entered King’s College, Cambridge, where, under the influence of more modern writers and intellectuals, he abandoned some of the Decadent fin de siècle postures found in his earlier poetry. * Freed from the day-to-day influence of his family, he joined
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