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
Edison (poem) 1931 Nezval wrote "Signál času" ("Signal of time") which is an elegy. Both poems are written in the same measure, trochaic hexameter. Nezval uses long enumerations, building sophisticated poetical imagery. Nezval's "Edison" was probably influenced by Guillaume Apollinaire's work, especially the poem "Zone", which was translated into Czech by Karel Čapek. The poem was translated into English by Ewald Osers. François Kérel, helped by Nezval himself, translated the poem into French. It was also twice translated into Polish, by Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski and Józef Waczków. Edison (poem) Edison is an epic poem by Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval. It was written