The Soldier (poem) quoted verbatim at the funeral of a soldier killed in battle (at 1:09:30). 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",
The Fly (poem) die", a conclusion to which Paul Miner comments: "Brain-death is real death". The Fly (poem) "The Fly" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection "Songs of Experience" in 1794. It was set to music in 1965 by Benjamin Britten as part of his song cycle "Songs and Proverbs of William Blake". Esperanza Spalding recorded this poem on her 2010 album Chamber Music Society. Blake printed the poem with the text set in the branches of trees, an image of a nurse and a toddler in the foreground, and a