Metaphysical poets the Metaphysical style. The choice of style by the young Milton and the young Dryden can therefore be explained in part as contextual. Both went on to develop radically different ways of writing; neither could be counted as potentially Metaphysical poets. Nor could Alexander Pope, yet his early poetry evidences an interest in his Metaphysical forebears. Among his juvenilia appear imitations of Cowley. As a young man he began work on adapting Donne's second satire, to which he had added the fourth satire too by 1735. Pope also wrote his “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” (1717) while
War poet War was beginning, American poet Walt Whitman published his poem "" as a patriotic rally call for the North. Whitman volunteered for a time as a nurse in the army hospitals, and his collection "Drum-Taps" (1865) deals with his experiences during the War. Georg Herwegh who wrote during the German revolutions of 1848–49 is an example of a nineteenth century German war poet. Probably the most famous nineteenth century war poem is Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade", which he supposedly wrote in only a few minutes after reading an account of the battle in "The Times". As poet