The Death of a Soldier
Wallace Stevens * Track #2 On Poems Added to Harmonium
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Album Poems Added to Harmonium
- #1The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
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- #2The Death of a Soldier
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- #3Negation
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- #4The Surprises of the Superhuman
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- #5Sea Surface Full of Clouds
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- #6The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade
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- #7New England Verses
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- #8Lunar Paraphrase
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- #9Anatomy of Monotony
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- #10The Public Square
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- #11Sonatina to Hans Christian
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- #12In the Clear Season of Grapes
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- #13Two at Norfolk
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- #14Indian River
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The Death of a Soldier by Wallace Stevens
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Added to Harmonium in 1931 and perhaps haunted by World War I, “The Death of a Soldier” contrasts violent human death with autumn and the ongoing seasonal cycle.
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Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.
He does not become a three-days’ personage,
Imposing his separation,
Calling for pomp.
Death is absolute and without memorial,
As in a season of autumn,
When the wind stops.
When the wind stops and, over the heavens,
The clouds go, nevertheless,
In their direction.
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When did Wallace Stevens release The Death of a Soldier?
Wallace Stevens released The Death of a Soldier on Thu Jan 01 1931.