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.
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“We agree fully that the mother and unborn child demand special consideration. But so does the soldier and the man maimed in industry. Industrial conditions that are suitable for a stalwart, young, unmarried woman are certainly not equally suitable to the pregnant woman or the mother of young children. Yet “welfare” laws apply to all women alike. Such blanket legislation is as absurd as fixing industrial conditions for men on a basis of their all being wounded soldiers would be.”
—National Woman’s Party, quoted in Everyone Was Brave. As, ch. 8, by William L. O’Neill (1969)