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    A Study Guide for Rupert Brooke's "Peace"
    A Study Guide for Rupert Brooke's "Peace"
    A Study Guide for Rupert Brooke's "Peace"
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    A Study Guide for Rupert Brooke's "Peace"

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    A Study Guide for Rupert Brooke's "Peace," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535830706
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      A Study Guide for Rupert Brooke's "Peace" - Gale

      14

      Peace

      Rupert Brooke

      1914

      Introduction

      Rupert Brooke's war sonnets, including Peace, published at the end of 1914 during World War I, are among the best-known poems in the United Kingdom because of their resonance with British patriotism and history. They have been regularly studied in British schools for the last century. They caught exactly the expectant hope of their time that what was then called the Great War would somehow work toward the nation and the world's good and become a renewing baptism of fire. Because these poems so precisely caught the national mood, they became a runaway best seller, especially after Brooke's own death (of an infection, rather than in combat), which seemed to make him a martyr to the cause for which the war was being fought. But as the war dragged on through four years of increasingly senseless destruction, with more than a million Britons killed, and as the history of literature moved on to more modern forms, Brooke fell out of favor among critics. Yet even today, the illusory image of national renewal that he offers keeps him in the national consciousness.

      Author Biography

      Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887, in the English town of Rugby. His father, William Brooke, was a schoolmaster (teacher) at Rugby school, where Rupert attended. Rugby is a public school (equivalent to a private school in the United States) patronized by the British aristocracy, and at that time, it was probably the finest secondary school in the world. Brooke never lost faith that he would someday be a noted poet, and he repeatedly boasted to his classmates that he would eventually have his portrait in the gallery at Rugby reserved for graduates who became great writers, as turned out to be the case. Brooke won a prize scholarship to Cambridge University, but he earned only a second-class honors degree in classics,

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