Tuesday, December 31, 2002

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I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes,
And found my wild sick blasphemous prayer granted,
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Rupert Brooke
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Ted Smith 24 October 2013

Brooke's sexual ambiguity is illustrated in this poem. He wishes to be intimate with Noel Oliver, but holds back because he fears that she will lose that pure virginal image. Brooke was a Puritan at heart, and by upbringing.

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