Pfupisa nyaya yacho:  Mudetembi Rupert Brooke aiva neukama husingapfuuri kwenguva refu nevakadzi vakasiyana-siyana asati afa ava nemakore 27 muna April 1915. Mudetembi Rupert Brooke ave ane mukurumbira kwenguva refu so'Apollo muduku,' chiratidzo chouduku husina mhaka uyo akaurawa achiri muduku zvikuru mukati mokuurawa kusina mufungo kweHondo Yenyika Yokutanga. Asi tsamba itsva dzisati dzamboonekwa dzinoratidza kuti iye akanga ari chaizvoizvo muvhimi womukadzi ane usimbe muduku uyo akanga ane nhevedzano yenhau pasina kutongogadzikana. Magwaro, akabudiswa pachena kwenguva yokutanga nemhaka yechipo che£430,000, anoratidza vadiwa vaBrooke vachinyunyuta pamusoro pokuramba kwake kutora ukama hwavo zvakakomba. Tsamba dzacho chikamu cheunganidzwa waJohn Schroder, uyo akapedza makumi amakore ari mumaoko avanhu asi zvino achava anowanika kuvanhu vose pashure pokutengwa neKing's College, Cambridge, uko mudetembi akanga ari mudzidzi. Brooke, uyo akafa makore 100 akapfuura nhasi pazera ramakore 27 chete, akava munhu ane mukurumbira nemhaka yorufu rwake rwokutanga nenhetembo dzake dzakakurumbira dzakadai seThe Soldier. Bhuku rake rokuchema rakanyorwa naWinston Churchill, uyo akamudana kuti 'zvose izvo munhu angada kuti vanakomana vakakurumbira zvikurusa veEngland vave.' Zvisinei, tsamba dziri muunganidzwa waSchroder - kubatanidza magwaro 170 akanyorwa naBrooke pachake - dzinoratidza rutivi rwakasiyana zvikuru rwenhetembo huru. Murindi wezvinyorwa zvaMambo Patricia McGuire akati Brooke akanga ari'munhu asina tsika kunyange nokuda kwomurume wenguva yake' uye akaramba ane ukama neshamwari dzomukadzi dzakawanda. 'Vakadzi vanoverengeka vakafunga kuti aizovaroora - iye angave akafunga kuti aizodaro,' Dr McGuire akaudza The Times. 'Ndinofunga kuti aifara kupedza nguva yakawanda nevakadzi vakawanda sezvaaigona.' Pakati pevadikani vane nyaya naBrooke dzinoratidzwa mutsamba idzi pane nyeredzi yeHollywood Cathleen Nesbitt, muimbi Phyllis Gardner, uye hama yaLaurence Olivier Noël. Vadiwa: Cathleen Nesbitt, kuruboshwe, naPhyllis Gardner, kurudyi, vari pakati pavakadzi vaiva neukama naBrooke. Akakurumbira: Brooke akava mumwe wevananyanduri veBritain vanodiwa zvikurusa pashure porufu rwake rwokukurumidza. Nesbitt akanyorera Eddie Marsh, munyori wenhoroondo yaBrooke, achiti:
Nyanduri ane mukurumbira so'Apollo muduku' uyo akafa nenzira inosuruvarisa achiri muduku. Tsamba itsva dzinoratidzira kuti akanga ane nhevedzano youkama hupfupi navakadzi. Mukwanyina wake Cathleen Nesbitt akakarakadza kuti aigona 'kugara musango' Brooke akachema norudzi uye akapembererwa naChurchill paakafa makore zana apfuura nhasi.