"American Rupert Brooke." Desire for his life to end gloriously at an early age. Fought and died in World War I.

Seeger spent two years in the French Foreign Legion; as an American citizen he could not join the French military, so he did the next best thing and joined the Legion, since the United States had not yet entered the war against the Central Powers.  After graduating from Harvard in 1910, Seeger lived for two years in Greenwich Village where he wrote poetry and enjoyed the life of a young bohemian. The poetry he wrote then and while he was at the front was not published until 1917, a year after his death..  His collective work Poems was reviewed in 1917 in The Egoist, where the critic commented that "Seeger was serious about his work and spent pains over i