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
Casabianca (poem) Casabianca (poem) "Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in "The Monthly Magazine, Vol 2, August 1826 The poem starts: It is written in ballad meter, rhyming "abab". The poem commemorates an actual incident that occurred in 1798 during the Battle of the Nile aboard the French ship "Orient". The young son Giocante (his age is variously given as ten, twelve and thirteen) of commander Louis de Casabianca remained at his post and perished when the flames caused the magazine to explode. In Hemans' and other tellings of the story, young Casabianca refuses to