The Soldier (poem) The Soldier (poem) "The Soldier" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled "1914". It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem "Dulce et Decorum est". The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge. This poem was written at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, as part of a series of sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. Brooke himself, predominantly a prewar poet, died the year after "The Soldier" was published. "The Soldier", being the conclusion and the finale to Brooke’s "1914" war sonnet series, deals
Ode (poem) Ode (poem) Ode is a poem written by the English poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy and first published in 1873. It is often referred to by its first line "We are the music makers". The "Ode" is the first poem in O'Shaughnessy's collection "Music and Moonlight" (1874). It has nine stanzas, although it is commonly believed to be only three stanzas long. The opening stanza is: The phrase "movers and shakers" (now used to describe powerful and worldly individuals and groups) originates here. The poem has been set to music, or alluded to, many times: Sir Edward Elgar set the ode to