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 Poet (essay) The Poet (essay) "The Poet" is an essay by U.S. writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, written between 1841 and 1843 and published in his "" in 1844. It is not about "men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in meter, but of the true poet." In the essay, Emerson expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices: The final lines in the essay read as follows: The essay offers a profound look at the poem and its role in society. In a paragraph