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The Soldier by Rupert Brooke who was born and brought up in Rugby.

• Rupert Brooke suffered a nervous breakdown in 1912 and went to Germany and America to recover. While there, he wrote travel diaries for a London newspaper, the Westminster Gazette.
• He also spent some time in Tahiti, where he wrote some of his early poems and fathered a child who died in 1990. He returned to England because of a lack of money.
• Brooke fought in Belgium during the early part of World War I. After returning to England, he wrote 5 poems about war which would make him famous.
• He sailed to Greece in early 1915, although German mines in the Mediterranean meant the ship went to Egypt instead. In Egypt, Brooke suffered from sunstroke and stomach troubles.
• Rupert Brooke’s most famous work is The Soldier, written during World War I. It includes the well known lines about a corner of a foreign field forever being a little piece of England.

(3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet . He is known for his war sonnets  written during the  WW1. His best known work is “The Soldier” . irish  poet  W.B yeats described him as “the handsomest young man in England.

Who is Rupert Brooke?

Rupert Brooke was an english poet during the world war one . He has a famous poem called `The soldier`it is about  a soldier who expressses his lovr for his homeland.He was born on 3 august 1887 till the  23 april 1915.

Childhood

Rupert brookes  experienced  a very comfortbale childhood when he was a kid. he had god education and went to a good school.he was very good at sport and especially cricket.He was also very creative and did lots of poems as a good and when he grew older his love for poetry grew with him.

Rupert Brooke enters the navy.

Rupert brooke applied for  a commision in the Royal naval Division he gained the position easily as the Marsh was the secretary tot the  First lord of the Admiratly.Brooke also wrote five poems which were establish him among the canon of First World  war writers,the ‘War Sonnets’ ‘Peace’,  ‘Safety’,   ‘The Dead’, a second ‘The Dead and ‘The Soldier.

Death

Rupert brooke actually died from a  poisonous insect bite, putting his body in a fatal strain , sooner or later he died. his grave is now buried in greece . he died  on  April 23rd 1915.

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♣Rupert Brooke died in world war 1 at the age 27 Rupert was born in Rugby and lived in Italy but studied at Germany he served in the British royal navy he made many poems including: The soldier, The dead, The old and many more he was a brave soldier in war but sadly died by blood poisoning. Before fighting in the war Rupert Brook was a poet (and a very good one to.) If he got any medals I would mention them but he did not get any medals and he dint have a wife either in his younger age he went to Kings college and he studied classics before he became a poet he was a kitchen staff. He is very famous for his poetry and a very lucky man.♣

Who is Rupert Brooke?

Rupert Brooke was a famous writer during world war 1. He was also known as the most handsome man during those times. He made a very famous poem that made him famous, the poem was called The soldier,sonnet. He was also a academic, campaigner, and aesthete who died serving in World War 1. Literary friends established him as one of the leading poet-soldiers.

Early life

 Rupert Brooke was born in August 3rd 1887, his father was a housemaster at Rugby School. After Rupert left Cambridge University, where he became friends with many of  those in the ‘Bloomsbury Group,’ Rupert  studied in Germany.

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