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
The Human Abstract (poem) The Human Abstract (poem) "The Human Abstract" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection "Songs of Experience" in 1794. The poem was originally drafted in Blake's notebook and was later revised for as part of publication in "Songs of Experience". Critics of the poem have noted it as demonstrative of Blake's metaphysical poetry and its emphasis on the tension between the human and the divine. The poem was engraved on a single plate as a part of the "Songs of Experience" (1794) and reprinted in Gilchrist's Life of Blake