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 Rolling English Road alliterative yoke in the last stanza ("Paradise ... Kensal Green") you know he's being serious." In the final line of the poem, Kensal Green refers to Kensal Green Cemetery in London. G. K. Chesterton's Works on the Web The Rolling English Road "The Rolling English Road" is one of the best-known poems by G. K. Chesterton. It was first published under the title "A Song of Temperance Reform" in the "New Witness" in 1913. It was also included in the novel by Chesterton, "The Flying Inn" in 1914. The poem is written in heptameters. Alliteration is plentiful and "a particularly