Please identify this poem...?

Question

I once read a poem in my British Lit class, and the author said, basically, that death isn't so horrible because you get to join all the great men before you. Can anyone tell me what this poem is called an who is the author? Thanks!

Answer 1

not sure if this is what you are talking about. in fact, i doubt it. but you might like it anyway. check out john donne's tenth holy sonnet, commonly known as 'death be not proud.' i could help you a lot more if you narrowed it down to a certain period of time, a location, or even a style.

Answer 2

. The Soldier Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Was it this or another war poem?

Answer 3

john keats i guess