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",
Tulips (poem) Eileen Aird remarks: "The world of "Ariel" is a black and white one into which red, which represents blood, the heart and living is always an intrusion." Renée R. Curry takes this further by claiming the tulips signify "by their glorious and bold colors, glaring Otherness." Tulips (poem) "Tulips" is a poem by American poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was written in 1961 and included in the collection "Ariel" published in 1965.The poem is written in nine stanzas in sixty three lines "Tulips" is written in nine seven-line stanzas, totaling 63 lines, and follows no rhyme scheme. Richard Grey comments