American Literature / Unit 10 AML 0910 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Drum-Taps* and the Civil War
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The idea
Whitman went to Washington to find his wounded brother and stayed to nurse soldiers in the hospitals, and the war poems he gathered as Drum-Taps are quieter and harder than the earlier work: a night on a battlefield, a dressing of wounds, a face under a blanket.
In practice
A poet turned hospital visitor.
Where people slip
The war poems abandon the earlier exuberance.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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