<P> Implicit references to this poem (and several others) are made in Muse's song "Soldier's Poem" from their album Black Holes & Revelations . </P> <P> Prior to the first moon landing in 1969, William Safire prepared a speech for U.S. President Richard Nixon to give in case of disaster . The last line of the prepared address intentionally echoes a similar line from the poem . ("For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind .") This line is in reference to the first few lines of the poem . </P> <P> The Second World War fiction novel Under an English Heaven, by Robert Radcliffe, tells the story of a Flying Fortress bomber crew in the USAAF 520th Bombardment Group, based on a Suffolk airbase . The novel takes its title directly from this piece, and although not mentioning the poem directly, comparisons are drawn between "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and particular bombing missions over occupied Europe which elicited a very high casualty rate, underlining the futility of the survival odds for any given bomber crew . </P> <P> English singer songwriter Al Stewart makes reference to Brooke in his song "Somewhere in England (1915)" from the album A Beach Full of Shells: "And the maker of rhymes on the deck who is going to die, in the corner of some foreign field that will make him so famous, as the light temporarily shines to illumine his pages ." </P>

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