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
They (poem) They (poem) They is a 1917 poem by the English soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon published in "The Old Huntsman and Other Poems". It disparages the attitude of the established church to the Great War. The first verse of the poem tells of a bishop's speech about the noble sacrifice of the soldiers, and in particular mentions his view that ""they lead the last attack / On Anti-Christ"". The second verse contrasts with the soldiers' reply, telling of the woes of four common soldiers; the bishop replies that ""The ways of God are strange!"" The poem is still under copyright