'''Basic Trope''': A warrior who applies {{poetry}}, philosophy, and/or {{art}} to combat.
* '''Straight''': Bob is a war veteran who writes an epic poem based on his experiences in war.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is a DanceBattler who, in the midst of battle, sings a beautiful and mournful elegy to each enemy he kills.
** Bob is [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]] in disguise.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob is a CulturedWarrior, but doesn't actively pursue the arts.
** Bob is a poet who is conscripted into war and draws artistic inspiration from his circumstances, but considers battle unworthy of memorization beyond unsparing [[WarIsHell anti-war]] and [[ArmiesAreEvil anti-military]] screeds.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob needs to cope with war somehow, so he uses expression to help himself along.
** Bob comes from a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets martial arts fraternity]] or [[WarriorMonk religious order]] that teaches its members to be {{Warrior Poet}}s.
** Bob is a tribal bard. Being a WarriorPoet is his ''job''.
** Bob was an intellectual before the war and naturally good at poetry. Now that he is a soldier he writes poems about war.
** Bob is a battle-mage who casts spells with poetry.
** Bob enlists because he believes he cannot be a good poet without seeing the sufferings of life.
** Bob is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy. Every aspect of his culture involves warfare, including poetry.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is an artist by day and a brutal, psychopathic serial killer by night. The latter is inspiration for the former.
* '''Subverted''': Bob writes an epic contemplative poem based on his experiences in war but it turns out he's a MilesGloriosus.
* '''Double Subverted''': But when the MilesGloriosus is thrust into a combat situation, he ends up doing well and writing an even better poem.
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob uses his experiences in war to write childish nursery rhymes.
** Bob is a literal Warrior Poet, defeating his foes by stupefying them with his Epic Rap-Battle skills.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob aspires to this trope, but as he witnesses horrific things he flip-flops over whether such behaviour is a [[WarIsGlorious glorification of war]], or whether it's a necessity to retain one's own humanity.
* '''Averted''': A movie takes place in a time and place where warrior poets are a traditional trope (ancient China, ancient Japan, the Crusades, Sparta, etc.) but the main characters are unthinking soldiers who fight without wondering why they do.
* '''Enforced''': The FramingDevice is of such a character [[BringNewsBack Bringing News Back]] to tell his comrades' heroic story.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh no, is Bob ''ever'' going to stop quoting Homer whenever we go into battle?"
* '''Invoked''': Bob is a scholar of samurai literature, and when he's thrust into war he tries to apply this trope to his life to keep himself sane.
* '''Exploited''': "The prisoner is ''never'' gonna talk this way. Lets tie him up and make him [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment listen to Bob]]. If that doesn't work, nothing will!"
* '''Defied''': Bob is a CulturedBadass, but as far as he's concerned, once battle starts the artistic aesthete side of him stays in the tent. When he picks up his sword he turns into a brutal CombatPragmatist and ScreamingWarrior.
* '''Discussed''': "Those SpaceElves are probably composing sonnets on the beauty of springtime right now, [[HumansAreWarriors while we prepare for battle]]. Pussies."
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': [[WarIsHell War]] turns Bob into a savage or [[ShellshockedVeteran traumatizes him]], which crushes any poetic tendencies he might have.
* '''Reconstructed''': War turns Bob into a ShellshockedVeteran but this only fuels his desire to express his views on combat through art and poetry.
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