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On May 2nd 1915, le mirior published the first picture of a battle: the exploding of a shell while infantry carried out an assault in a landscape of meadows and woods. How the picture looks like shows that the picture is given by the newspaper as ultimate proof that its pretty old. The "as if you were there" photographic style came into fashion, heralding a long run of photographs, years before the famous shot taken by Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War, in which we see a republican soldier at the very moment of being brought down by a bullet as he runs. This did not, however, prevent painters from producing some war paintings in very different styles. (picture below) Rupert Brooke was born into a well-to-do, academic family; his father was a housemaster at Rugby School, where Rupert was educated before going on to King's College, Cambridge. He was a good student and athlete, and--in part because of his strikingly handsome looks--a popular young man who eventually numbered among his friends E. M. Forster, Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Edward Thomas. Even as a student he was familiar in literary circles and came to know many important political, literary and social figures before the war. Brooke actually saw little combat during the war; he contracted blood-poisoning from a small neglected injury and died in April, 1915, in the Aegean. Brooke's reputation, aside from the myth of the fallen "golden warrior" that his friends set about creating almost immediately after his death, rests on the five war sonnets of 1914. Some of his earlier poetry--"Fish," Helen and Menelaus," and "Heaven"--however, shows us a much different side of Brooke's talent and temperamentRupert Brooke was born into an academic family; his father was a housemaster at Rugby School, where Rupert was taught before going on to King's College, Cambridge. He was athletic and smart, and--in part because of his strikingly handsome looks,a popular young man who eventually numbered among his friends E. M. Forster, Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Edward Thomas. Even as a student he was familiar in literary circles and came to know many important political, literary and social figures before the war. Brooke actually saw little combat during the war; he contracted blood-poisoning from a small neglected injury and died in April, 1915, in the Aegean. Brooke's reputation, aside from the myth of the fallen "golden warrior" that his friends set about creating almost immediately after his death, rests on the five war sonnets of 1914. Some of his earlier poetry--"Fish," Helen and Menelaus," and "Heaven"--however, shows us a much different side of Brooke's talent and temperamentmaster at Rugby School, where Rupert was educated before going on to King's College, Cambridge. He was a good student and athlete, and--in part because of his strikingly handsome looks--a popular young man who eventually numbered among his friends E. M. Forster, Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Edward Thomas. Even as a student he was familiar in literary circles and came to know many important political, literary and social figures before the war.

Art effected the people in and out of the war good and bad. Art made people know how many hardships that soldiers had to face and the people



Reproduced below are the lyrics to the popular British anthem, //It's a// Long Way to Tipperary.Easily one of the most popular anthems sung by soldiers on the way to the Western Front during the early enthusiasm of summer 1914, the song was written by Jack Judge and Harry Williams some two years earlier in 1912. One part of going to war was the enlistment and training of recruits. Of course there were no shortages of volunteers. Once the country committed to joining the war, young men from every walk of life queued up to enlist. It was a sign of manhood, a badge of courage (later, the red badge) to become a soldier and go overseas to fight. At this point, we still cannot see the ugly reality of war and excitement rules. Perhaps the first point at which reality began to set in was at that point when it was time to say good-bye. At this point all the bravado is of no service. Soldiers, families and sweethearts must now look themselves square in the eye and face the prospect of never seeing each other again. Song after song was written about this aspect of the war but perhaps none so poignant and touching as Till We Meet Again. This song has survived as one of the greatest classics of all time. It became the generic "good-bye" song for any situation; war, graduation, off to school, you name it. If it was good-bye to someone special, this was the song to sing. The words are touching and the melody is completely unforgettable. I have this song in both the full size and war-edition versions, the covers for both are identical.

His Buttons Are Marked "U.S." 1902 (reissued 1918) Music by: Carrie Jacobs-Bond Lyrics by: Mary Norton Bradford Cover artist: unknown Let's not forget the effect of Dad's going off to war on the children. For them, it becomes more difficult to understand what was happening. War and going off to war is a hard concept to explain to small children and this song clearly shows that children will relate things to what they know.

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