A Soldier's Sacrifice

[abu nuwas]

Rupert Brooke was almost relishing the war, of doing something, as many of his generation, of intellectuals were, but he is resigned (in the poem) and positive, as he he contemplates becoming part of the universal mind. In a sense, your poem is sadder, because we know what happened in the war, and since. It would not matter, though, if the soldier expected appreciation, which is no longer as widespread as it was, nor, in a way, does it matter. If you remember, and I remember, they are remembered.

It was well writ.