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',
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