Brook published his passionate "Collected Poems" in 1911. In 1915, he published a collection of sonnets "1914", praising the patriotism and heroic deeds of young British soldiers. The most famous ones are "Soldier", "Peace", "Safety", "Dead", etc., which were impassioned and widely recited. Brooke was charming and versatile during his lifetime. After his death, he was regarded as a model of British youth and a model of war poets who sacrificed their lives for the country. "Collected Poems" was published in 1918. "American Letters" was published in 1916, with a preface by the famous American novelist Henry James. Brooke was influenced early by Romantic poetry and later by 17th-century poetry (in 1916 he published a study of John Webster). In this regard, he was similar to Thomas Sternus Eliot. Representative works of Brooke's later poetry include "Heaven", "Mud", etc., which show his wit and originality.
His most famous work is the sonnet series "1914" (1915), including the popular sonnet "The Soldier" (The Soldier), which expresses the tension in the face of death. His idealism contrasts sharply with the poems he later wrote in the trenches. The poem begins:
"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. ”
“If I die, not only should I think like this:
There is a place in a corner of a foreign field,
It will always be England. The land."
The poet holds a romantic view of war because the poet did not witness the cruelty of war with his own eyes. “Had he been alive, he would probably have re-expressed his views on this issue.
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