Poetry+of+WW1

=**Poetry of World War 1** = Hi Everyone Here I will upload some examples of Poetry from World War 1 and some links. Look above to where it says - Discussion - and go there to ask and answer questions.

Rupert Brooke died very early in the war. Here is my favourite poem of his.

**The War Sonnets: V. The Soldier** If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever 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 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; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

====** Winston Churchill, who was the First Lord of the Admiralty at the time, but later destined to become Britain's Prime Minister during WW2, wrote the reflection below on the death of Rupert Brooke. **==== The thoughts to which he gave expression in the very few incomparable war sonnets which he has left behind will be shared by many thousands of young men moving resolutely and blithely forward into this, the hardest, cruellest, and the least-rewarded of all the wars that men have fought. They are a whole history and revelation of Rupert Brooke himself. Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with classic symmetry of mind and body, he was all that one would wish England's noblest sons to be in days when no sacrifice but the most precious is acceptable, and the most precious is that which is most freely proffered.

// - click here - [|WW1 Poets Biographical Info] //
Here is a good place to find some information about the details of the War [|BBC World War One]
 * You'll find - if you look hard - an animated version of //In Flander's Fields// by John McCrae** - but just to make it easy for you here is the link - [|In Flanders Fields Flash]

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