The Dead (poem) The Dead (poem) The Dead is the name of two poems by Rupert Brooke, parts III and IV of his collection "1914". Brooke wrote the five poems that were published in 1914 in the autumn after the outbreak of the First World War when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. Also in this collection is 'The Soldier', one of Brooke's most famous poems, though 'The Dead' (IV) was one of his personal favourites. The poems were published in New Numbers before being published in 1914. Brooke published five poems for this collection: I: 'Peace', II: 'Safety', III: 'The Dead',
The Altar (Herbert poem) page and is the second written by Herbert involving altars. The other is shorter and was originally written in Greek. This earlier poem provided a model for the later piece and has been referred to as a "meditation and a prayer". It does not resemble the English poem in shape, however. The English poem's form was inspired by Classical (or "pagan") altars and the old Greek poems written to reflect their shapes. Publication of the "Greek Anthology", in which such surviving poems appeared, first introduced English readers to the form in 1555. Over the course of the poem's republication, the