In Memory of World War I Soldiers
In Memory of World War I Soldiers
Two weeks ago Palestine and Israel started to war for their conviction. Two countries fighting for a piece of land that what it is. However, in the beginning of the 20 century the world was fighting for the human rights. A lot of men died during this war, soldiers who were before everything human being with feelings, who died for their aim and believes. Some of them ,to forget their misery decided to write poems such as Alfred Joyce Kilmer and Rupert Brooke.
Alfred Joyce Kilmer was born on December 1886 in New Brunswick .He died in 1918, killed by a bullet .Kilmer was part of the Regiment’s intelligence staff. He was also awarded of the French “croix de guerre” for bravery . In 1915 , immediately after the death of his friend , Rupert Brooke ,he wrote a compilation of poems named “in memory of Rupert Brooke” .Brooke was born in1887 , he was a good student and athlete with a handsome look .Brooke contracted a blood-poisoning from a neglected injury and died in April in the Aegean .H e attempted his post-mortem glory because of Kilmer’s poem “golden warrior”.
Most of the time, when men are fighting for their country; they are fighting in a foreign land . Soldiers are usually dying far from their home and families. Far from their beloved country ,in the middle of nowhere ,they are dying . Their last minute of life, is generally in the middle of bullets flying from a place to another. I think, Brooke died in those conditions, and suffered a lot during his death because he realized every steps of his dying procedure. Kilmer understood that, by reporting those feelings into poetic words such as:
In alien earth ,
across a troubled sea ,
The soldiers recruited by the army to fight are usually young and full of dignity .
They are , 15 to 35 years old and their life just began . Brooke was only 28 years old when he died .If he wasn’t dead during the 1st world -war Rupert would have ,probably, been a famous poet, and a family man with a wife and several children .But the talented man died to soon...