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Essay Galaxy - Subject of War in the Poems of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, and Sandburg
Subject of War in the Poems of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, and Sandburg
When reading poetry on the subject of war, one's own feelings
regarding the subject are evoked. This makes it easier to feel the words
and what they say to you. Crane's selection, "War is Kind" presents a
dilemma from the outset as it uses two words "war" and "kind" that are
dissimilar. Crane then highlights acts of destruction and despair with the
"kindness" of war. He notes that a child should not weep when his father
was killed, "Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father
tumbled in the yellow trenches, Raged at his breast, gulped and died. Do
not weep. War is kind." As if a child could think that someone who killed
his father was kind. Or he contrasts "virtue" with ....
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