Retrospect
by Rupert Brooke
‘Retrospect’ by Rupert Brooke is a forty line poem in which a speaker describes all he would do to retrieve his deified lover from the depths of her “vast unconsciousness.”
Rupert Brooke was an English poet known for his sonnets written during the First World War. He died in 1915 of sepsis at the age of 27. He is best known for the poem, ‘The Solider.’
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