Walt Whitman and the Civil War | American Experience | PBS
Whitman opposed slavery and supported the free soil platform advocating that only those territories that outlawed slavery should be allowed into the Union as new states. But he feared the Civil...
Walt Whitman and the Civil War - ThoughtCo
2019年2月26日 · The poet Walt Whitman wrote about the Civil War extensively. His heartfelt observation of life in wartime Washington made its way into poems, and he also wrote articles for newspapers and a number of notebook entries only published decades later.
Walt Whitman Quotes (Author of Leaves of Grass) - Goodreads
1106 quotes from Walt Whitman: 'Resist much, obey little.', 'What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.', and 'Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)'
Walt Whitman Quotes About War | A-Z Quotes
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman's Civil War Poetry, Seminar Resources, Online …
2010年3月18日 · An anti-slavery Democrat, who dressed the wounds of both Northern and Southern soldiers, Whitman wrote poems that describe the circumstances of war—from the exuberant optimism of 1861 to the blood-soaked exhaustion of 1865. How did he interpret the slaughter and sacrifice of the Civil War?
Walt Whitman - Poems, Quotes & Poetry - Biography
2014年4月2日 · Whitman later worked as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, writing the collection Drum Taps (1865) in connection to the experiences of war-torn soldiers. Having continued to produce...
The Civil War (documentary) - Wikiquote
2024年4月20日 · Walt Whitman; Not the fall of Richmond, nor Wilmington, nor Charleston, nor Savannah, nor Mobile, nor all the combined can save the enemy from constant and exhaustive drain of blood and treasure, which must continue, until he shall discover that no peace is attainable unless based on the recognition of our indefeasible rights.
1861 by Walt Whitman - Poem Analysis
‘1861’ by Walt Whitman is a moving Civil War poem written from the perspective of a soldier. He details the difficulty of a particular year. Walt Whitman is known as the father of free verse poetry. His deeply emotional, spiritual, and nature-based poems appeal to poetry lovers around the world.
Walt Whitman | Biography, Poems, Leaves of Grass, & Facts
2024年11月22日 · In May 1865 a collection of war poems entitled Drum-Taps showed Whitman’s readers a new kind of poetry, in free verse, moving from the oratorical excitement with which he had greeted the falling-in and arming of the young men at the beginning of the Civil War to a disturbing awareness of what war really meant. “Beat!
Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War …
In so doing, Walt Whitman began a Washington sojourn that would last throughout the Civil War. 1 Figure 3. Leaving the army camp at Falmouth, Whitman shepherded a group of wounded soldiers from the Fredericksburg battlefield to Washington's hospitals.