FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
POETRY
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Boer War
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Second World War
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Korean War
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First World War
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the outbreak of World War I, he received a commission in the Royal Navy. After taking part in a disastrous expedition to Antwerp that ended in a harrowing retreat, he sailed for the Dardanelles, which he never reached.
Detailed explanation-2: -About the Poet He saw combat action in the fight for Antwerp in 1914, as well as a retreat. As he awaited a new deployment, he wrote the short set of five 1914 War Sonnets, which concluded with one called The Soldier.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rupert Brooke saw his only action of World War I during the defense of Antwerp, Belgium, against German invasion in early October 1914.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Soldier was written while Brooke was on leave at Christmas, 1914; it was the final sonnet in a collection of five that he entitled “1914”-his reflections on the outbreak of war. They were first published in the magazine New Numbers in January 1915.