Pfupisa nyaya yacho:  MUCHIKAMU CHOKUKUONA. rakanyorwa naLorna C. Beckett. (British Library £16.99) Mukati mehurukuro yake yeIsita ya1915, Dean weSt Paul's akaverenga nhetembo yaRupert Brooke inonzi The Soldier, iyo inotanga kuti: "Kana ndikafa, funga izvi bedzi pamusoro pangu: / Kuti pane imwe kona yomunda wokumwe / Ndiyo England nokusingaperi". Nhetembo yaRupert Brooke (inoratidzwa pamufananidzo) inonzi The Soldier yakamuita kuti ave nomukurumbira kunze kwemasangano ezvinyorwa. Pamberi pezvo, Brooke akanga achingozivikanwa mumasangano ezvinyorwa bedzi. Asi apo mapepanhau akadhindazve The Soldier zuva rakatevera racho, akava nomukurumbira wakakodzera kwoupenyu hwake hwose - uhwo, sezvakazoitika, hwakagara kweinopfuura masvondo maviri. Rufu rwaBrooke pazera ramakore 27 nemhaka yehupfu hweropa munzira yokuGallipoli rwakasimbisa zvakafanira mufananidzo wake somukomana womufananidzo wokuzvibaira kwougamba. Asi, seizvo The Second I Saw You rinosimbisa zvakajeka, akanga achifadza zvikuru kupfuura izvozvo. Nyaya yorudo yarinorondedzera yakanga isingazivikanwi kutozosvikira muna 2000, apo mutarisiri weBritish Library akawana chimwe chinhu chinonakidza: tsamba dzinopfuura 100 dzakatumirwa pakati paBrooke nomudzidzi wezvemifananidzo anonzi Phyllis Gardner, pamwe chete nemabhuku ake okuyeuka akavanzika ehukama hwavo, akanyorwa muna 1918. Zvino Lorna C. Beckett, sachigaro weRupert Brooke Society, akaashandura kuva nhoroondo dzinotevedzana, achiwedzera mashoko apashure atinoda, pamwe chete nemashoko ake amene. Ichokwadi kuti dzimwe nguva mashoko iwayo anoita seanotaurwa nevasikana (kusanganisira kusava nechido kwaBrooke 'chokuzvipira' uye chido chaPhyllis 'chokuenderera mberi.') Asi ipapo zvakare ndizvo zvinoita nhau yacho imene. Phyllis aiva nemakore 21 akatanga kuona Brooke ari muchitima chaibva kuLondon chichienda kuCambridge muna November 1911. Kufanana navamwe vose vakambomuona, kunoratidzika kuti, akaororwa norunako rwake uye akapedza rwendo rwacho achimudhirowa namachira ake. S iye ipapo akatakura mufananidzo wacho muCambridge, achiratidza kumunhu upi noupi aigona kukwanisa kumuziva. Nenzira yomufaro, vaviri vacho vakafamba mumativi akafanana, naBrooke achidzidza paKing's College uye baba vaPhyllis purofesa wezvokuchera matongo. Pakupedzisira, amutsvaka, akaita kuti vabereki vake vamukoke kuzodya masikati uko, maererano naye...
Nhetembo yaRupert Brooke inonzi The Soldier yakamuita mukurumbira muEngland yose. Akafa aine makore 27 nemhaka yokuviriswa neropa paaienda kuGallipoli. Muna 2000, tsamba dzorudo pakati paBrooks naPhyllis Gardner dzakawanwa. Ipapo, makore 85 pashure porufu rwake, rudo rwavo rwakaziviswa.