Interesting seeing Rupert Brooke's "swimmers into cleanness leaping" associated with American attitudes to the Second World War. I associate this poem's bright

Interesting seeing Rupert Brooke's "swimmers into cleanness leaping" associated with American attitudes to the Second World War. I associate this poem's bright naivety with European attitudes to the First World War, and associate the Second with painful reluctance both in the UK and in much of Germany.