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
Trees (poem) of Solitude and comes across a video of an elder (John Hollis) from planet Krypton reciting "Trees" as an example of "poetry from Earth literature". Luthor ridicules the poem. Trees (poem) "Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse" that August and included in Kilmer's 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems". The poem, in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, describes what Kilmer perceives as the inability of art created by humankind to replicate the beauty achieved by nature. Kilmer is