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The Death of a Soldier The Death of a Soldier "The Death of a Soldier" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium." The poem uses free verse to describe the death of a soldier. The poem's longevity reinforces the naturalistic austerity of its depiction of death. One interpretive viewpoint asks whether Stevens is writing about any death, or rather, as Longenbach asserts, the death of the soldier—"and not an ambiguously 'fictive' soldier but Eugène Lemercier [the young French painter killed in 1915 whose letters were collected as "Lettres d'un soldat" and read by Stevens in the summer of 1917]." Lemercier was