Noble Death?

Compare the death and burial of Hardy's  "Drummer Hodge" ("They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest / Uncoffined--just as found" (1-2)) to the death and burial of Brooke's "The Soldier."  How are they different?  Choose one other poem from the World War I collection (Sassoon, Gurney, or Rosenberg) that also provides a contrast to Brooke's view of death in war and explain the contrast.

Romantic Poetry and the Power of Language

I have been thinking about our brief discussion of the power that language has to shape how we perceive things. I found the passage in "Fears in Solitude" strikingly contemporary.  What happens to public perception when "all the dainty phrases for fratricide" are " Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which / We join no meaning and attach no form!" (116, 118-119)?  How did euphemisms control understanding after the French Revolution, according to the speaker in Coleridge's poem?  How do they control how we think now?

N.B.  The numbers in parenthesis are line numbers for the poem.  That is how you cite poetry although it is a bit tough when you have to number the lines yourself!