Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke, the author of a famous poem named Peace, has joined in War World One himself, and has went through a tough military life which has a big difference with his imagination. That’s why he can tell the truth about the brutality of the war. He uses a graceful and creative way to tell a story about death and evil in a graceful and creative way. Rupert deserves to win the “Poet of the year Award” for the following reasons. First, this poem has a very deep theme which is about the reality and the naught of the merciless war. Second, the good literary devices and beautiful language is very attractive. Third, the sad mood that the writer created can give people a deep understanding of the war.
    The profound theme of this poem shows the reality of the cruel war and tells the feeling from the bottom of the soldiers’ hearts. In the first place, the opinion of what the death brings to the soldiers is really different from ordinary thinking in the poem. It’s not sorrow but release. Rupert wrote in his poem: “Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there.” (Brooke, 12) The soldiers can find peace and laugh from heart only if they die. The death is “no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending” (Brooke, 10), so that it is really better than staying alive and keeping suffering. Moreover, the poem also talks about the conditions of the war. It says that battlefield is “a world grown old and cold and weary” (Brooke, 5) There is no fun and tender feelings in the war, and everybody is suffering from this bloody war. Last but not least, the poem points out the feeling of the soldiers clearly, because of author’s own experience. He writes: “Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;” (Brooke, 11) Soldiers think the war is totally naught. They become apathetic robots and feel so lost. In general, the poem shows the true colour of the war.
    This poem also uses lots of rhetorical devices. First, the personification in this poem is very thought-provoking. For...