The Civil War In American Culture A Comparison Of Two Poems By Walt Whitman

Author : Damaris Englert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668268959
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in American Culture. A Comparison of two Poems by Walt Whitman written by Damaris Englert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Augsburg (Philologisch-Historische Fakultät), course: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: The Civil War (1861-1865) was a significant and crucial experience for the still young nation of the United States. As a logical consequence, it immediately became a very important topic in American literature and culture. In this essay, I am going to compare two poems by Walt Whitman in order show the transformation in the perception and the resulting representation of the Civil War in American culture. Across all areas of culture, there is a development in the way the war is depicted. Whitman's own transformation from celebration to mourning is typical for the change undergone by the entire nation. Both poems are part of Whitman's collection Drum-Taps which was published in 1865, after the end of the war. However, they were created at different times. The first poem I am going to look at, First O songs for a prelude, was written in 1861 after the first battle at Fort Sumter and the resulting outbreak of the Civil War. The date of the second poem, The Wound-Dresser, is not exactly known, but Whitman certainly created it after 1862. That was the year where he found out that his brother was missing and then set out to look for him around the battlefields. So by the time The Wound-Dresser was written, Whitman had actually experienced war and undergone a comprehensive transformation, just as the whole nation.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387465
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up" written by Walt Whitman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill carry on a dialogue with Whitman (and with each other) as they invite readers to trace how Whitman’s writing about the Civil War develops, shifts, and manifests itself in different genres throughout the years of the war. The book offers forty selections of Whitman’s war writings, including not only the well-known war poems but also his prose and personal letters. Each are followed by Folsom’s critical examination and then by Merrill’s afterword, suggesting broader contexts for thinking about the selection. The real democratic reader, Whitman said, “must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay—the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start or frame-work,” because what is needed for democracy to flourish is “a nation of supple and athletic minds.” Folsom and Merrill model this kind of active reading and encourage both seasoned and new readers of Whitman’s war writings to enter into the challenging and exhilarating mode of talking back to Whitman, arguing with him, and learning from him.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman and the Civil War ... written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Sten
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386647
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "This Mighty Convulsion" written by Christopher Sten and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the war. The essays brought together in this volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the complexity of their views of the war; and heightened appreciation for the anxieties they harbored about its aftermath. Both in the ways they come together and seem mutually influenced, and in the ways they disagree, Whitman and Melville grapple with the casualties, complications, and anxieties of the war while highlighting its irresolution. This collection makes clear that rather than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events of the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even as it engages a cultural politics that is never pat. Contributors: Kyle Barton, Peter Bellis, Adam Bradford, Jonathan A. Cook, Ian Faith, Ed Folsom, Timothy Marr, Cody Marrs, Christopher Ohge, Vanessa Steinroetter, Sarah L. Thwaites, Brian Yothers

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Cider Mill Press
ISBN 13 : 1604335947
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drum Taps written by Walt Whitman and published by Cider Mill Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and elegant 150th Anniversary Edition of Whitman's celebrated Civil War poems, accompanied by moving photographs and artwork shedding new light on this tragic but significant chapter in American history. Drum Taps is the complete Civil War poem collection by Walt Whitman, including the celebrated Oh, Captain, My Captain!, and augmented with Whitman's essays from the period on subjects such as Secession, Abraham Lincoln, working in the Civil War hospitals, and the assassination of the president. For the first time ever, each poem is set on a single page, and augmented with stunning artwork from the period: bright, rich, full-color engravings from Currier & Ives; the brooding and detailed photography of Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady; watercolors from the battfield by Winslow Homer and other famous artists; and classic photographs and art from America’s richest collections, including the Library of Congress, the National Gallery, the George Eastman House, and many other collections. With gorgeous, old-fashioned hot type, beautifully restored period artwork, and an authoritative introduction by Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner James McPherson, this is the richest edition of these moving and thoughtful poems by America’s greatest poet ever published.

Author : Charles I. Glicksberg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512801682
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman and the Civil War written by Charles I. Glicksberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unidentified newspaper articles, written under a pseudonym, and hitherto unpublished manuscript material that throws new light on Whitman's career in the war.

Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943082
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman and the Civil War written by Ted Genoways and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as evidence of Whitman's indifference to the Civil War during its critical early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years—locating Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways's account fills a major gap in Whitman's biography and debunks the myth that Whitman was unaffected by the country's march to war. Instead, Walt Whitman and the Civil War reveals the poet's active participation in the early Civil War period and elucidates his shock at the horrors of war months before his legendary journey to Fredericksburg, correcting in part the poet's famous assertion that the "real war will never get in the books."

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557091323
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoranda During the War written by Walt Whitman and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486285073
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Poetry and Prose written by Walt Whitman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-10-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry, letters, and prose by Walt Whitman that were inspired by the Civil War.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566190367
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Poems written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from one of America's best known poets, reflecting the tragic and powerful era of the war between the states. In two parts, "Memories of President Lincoln" as he and the nation mourn Lincoln's death, and "Drum-Taps" from Whitman's experiences as a nurse tending the wounded