The Death of a Soldier

Wallace StevensWallace Stevens

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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.
Wallace Stevens
About the poet

Wallace Stevens

1879 - 1955/Male/AmericanA Modernist poet whose meditative and philosophical poems' moods rotate between ecstasy, apathy, and reluctance between ecstasy and apathy. (wikipedia)

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