The Death Of A Soldier
"The Death of a Soldier" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.The poem uses free verse to describe the death of a soldier in a detached manner common among reductionist poets.
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“My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)