Richard Le Gallienne (Jan. 20, 1866 - Sept. 15, 1947) Richard Le Gallienne was born January 20th, 1866 in Liverpool, England. His writing career began with the publication of My Ladies’ Sonnets in 1887, and expanded to contribute to The Star newspaper, The Yellow Book, and several other works of literature. Le Gallienne was part of a generation known as the “Lost Generation”, born in the wake of the first world war, which heavily influenced the subject and style of most of his writing. Richard Le Gallienne, in his poems “Soldier Going To The War” and “Ad Cimmerios”, conveys the Romantic ideal of nationalism, a Lost Generation focus on wartime and its aftermath, a Gothic preoccupation with death and tones of hopefulness and pride through the use of tense changes, figurative language, repetitive structure, allusion and apostrophe. “Soldier Going To The War” elucidates both Lost Generation influences with its focus on war, and Romantic influences with its nationalistic theme. Le Gallienne offers parallel hopeful and prideful tones in this poem along with its parallel structure. The first two stanzas address a soldier who is “going to” the war, while the last two shift to address a soldier who is “coming from” the war. This structure creates a sense of completion and victory that the reader can follow through the poem. The first two stanzas are effective in creating a hopeful tone through rhetorical questioning; the narrator asks if the soldier will “take [their] heart with [them]” in order to “share” in the “famous things” the soldier will accomplish. Le Gallienne also employs pathos in the second stanza; the narrator asks “if in battle [the soldier] must fall”, would they remember their face “last of all”. This exudes a tone of hopefulness as well; the narrator accepts that the soldier may die, yet still finds a way to make a promise in death. The last two