Rupert Brooke, considered by many scholars to be one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century, was born on August 3, 1887 in Warwickshire, England. As a child, Brooke attended a prestigious boarding school where he studied Latin and Greek and began writing poetry. In 1906, Brooke won a scholarship to attend King's College, Cambridge, and was elected president of the Fabian Society of Cambridge University, a club that gave voice to the values ​​of social democracy and socialism. He was also a founder of the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in many plays in Cambridge. After graduation, Brooke spent most of her time writing poetry and traveling the world. Described as a neo-pagan due to his love of nature, he often bathed naked in local streams and slept on the ground with his friends. In 1912, Brooke suffered an emotional crisis and confusion about homosexual impulses when he broke up with a woman he was in love with, Katherine Cox. He had to spend several months in rehab where he could not write any poetry. Returning to England in 1914 from Tahiti, Brooke, like many other young Englishmen of the time, voluntarily enlisted in the First World War. Brooke's most notable poetry was written during that first year of the Great War, including his famous sonnets, "The Dead" and "The Soldier," in which he expressed his devotion to his beloved home country. However, less than a year into the war, Brooke was bitten by a mosquito. The wound became infected and he eventually died of sepsis, or blood poisoning. His death reverberated throughout Britain, even prompting future Prime Minister Winston Churchill to eulogize him, describing Brooke as “everything you could want from the English nobleman… middle of paper… who pleases the sense of patriotism and national pride of the reader. Combined with “vivid imagery,” Brooke describes sudden deaths with a sense of romance or unrealistic feelings, comparing death to the natural world. His use of romanticism is prevalent because “the optimism of the early months of the war fell with his war poems, published after his death, expressing an idealism about the war that contrasts sharply with the poetry published later in the conflict” ( “Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)”). Brooke was unable to capture the actual scenes of World War I and only lived for a year during the start of the war. His naivety leads him to write unrealistically about death and he incorporates this into his frequent theme of dying with honor. Brooke, like many pre-World War I Georgian poets, uses sentimentality and romanticism to appeal to the emotions of the audience..