The life of Rupert Chawner Brooke
William Parker Brooke was a very educated man. He had just graduated from King’s College, in Cambridge. His major was in the Classics. After his graduation at Cambridge he was offered a position as a teacher at Fettes, near Edinburgh. While he was teaching in Edinburgh he met and fell in love with one of his friend sisters, Mary Ruth. On December 18, 1879 on a very chilly December afternoon they were married. “She was a strong-willed, puritanical character, who had no qualms about voicing her disapproval of any of Rupert’s friends,”(Hassall 22). Eight years and two children latter, on a warm August 3rd day, after nine months of pregnancy Rupert Chawner Brooke was born. Unknown to the parents at that time how a tremendous effect their son would have on millions of people because of his poetry. With the ninety five poems that he wrote and countless letters he would touch many with his poems of love, death, and life. Rupert and his two older brothers had attended a prep school in the near by town of Hillbrow. There they learned all the rudimentary things that a young boy should learn at his age. Like history, mathematics, sports and so on. While at Hillbrow Rupert was not a very happy young man. Although he did not like it
Another person that influenced his life would be Katharine Cox mainly because of her help through one of the darker periods of his life when he went to put it mildly ‘crazy’. An example of her help is, “I hold myself in, and wait, and grow fatter. But I’m certainer than ever that I’m, possibly , opening new Heavens, like a boy sliding open the door into a big room; trembling between wonder and certainty,”(Keynes 335). Another example of how Miss Cox influences Rupert Brooke is, “When I got your letter ----midday, yesterday ----I was fairly on my last legs. I’d been working for ten days alone at this beastly poetry. Working at poetry isn’t like reading hard. It doesn’t just tire and exhaust you. The only effect is that your nerves and your brain go,;(Keynes 399). The first quote shows Mr. Brooke in the middle stage of his madness around early January of 1911. The second excerpt is taken from September of 1912. With Mrs. Cox help Rupert Brooke was able to break out of his, “‘foodless and sleepless hell’ as he latter called it, ”(Keynes 331). With the coming out of his madness he was able to write poetry again and concentrate on what he loved to do. The final person that is being discussed on how Rupert Brooke was influenced is Geoffrey Keynes because this is one of Rupert Brookes lifelong friends ever since School Field. An example of how Mr Keynes influenced Mr Brooke is, “ An alarm of a German invasion in Norfolk. this mourning. A lot of troops and sailors are going off now. We’re waiting orders. If it’s in Norfolk, we shall be only be about the seventh line of defense,”(Keynes 628). This quote shows the true feelings that they had for each other as being close. They conversed for a while through letters until the death of Rupert Brooke some time latter.
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