Civil War and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

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In five pages this paper discusses how Walt Whitman represented the Civil War in such poems as 'A March in the Ranks Hard Prest and the Road Unknown,' 'A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim,' 'Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,' 'Calvary Crossing a Ford,' 'An Army Corps on the March,' 'O Captain! My Captain!' and 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.' There are 5 sources listed in the bibliography. A five page paper looking at the nineteenth-century poet's involvement with and reactions toward the Civil War, as seen through his poetry and letters. Specific poems discussed are: “,” “O Captain! My Captain!”, “An Army Corps on the March,” “Calvary Crossing a Ford,” “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,” “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim,” and “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown”. The bibliography cites five sources.