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",
The Altar (Herbert poem) page and is the second written by Herbert involving altars. The other is shorter and was originally written in Greek. This earlier poem provided a model for the later piece and has been referred to as a "meditation and a prayer". It does not resemble the English poem in shape, however. The English poem's form was inspired by Classical (or "pagan") altars and the old Greek poems written to reflect their shapes. Publication of the "Greek Anthology", in which such surviving poems appeared, first introduced English readers to the form in 1555. Over the course of the poem's republication, the