Walt Whitman uses many examples explaining how war can become dangerous to common people. But what kind of dangers can war bring to a person? Whitman just does not explain in simple words why war is so devastating, but uses different images that make war seem so terrible.

By analyzing the images in Beat! Beat! Drums! the reader finds out that Whitman believes the common man cannot live his/her life in peace with the idea of war in their minds. Whitman describes how war disturbs the common man’s life in his poem Beat! Beat! Drums! in the quote “Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain…” War will destroy the regular way of life that is natural to the common man because war interferes with norma

Whitman shows how the war affects personal lives and not just working men when he uses imagery to show how war interrupts everyday life. This is evident in the lines: “Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation Into the school where the scholar is studying; Leave not the bridegroom quiet-no happiness must he have with his bride” these lines expressed by Whitman have an underlying meaning in each image he presents to explain why war affects the common people. Whitman uses the image of a “solemn church” to show how people must go through each day, with an empty feeling in their souls, knowing their lives’ are at risk. Using the image of a “school” being disrupted; Whitman is able to express the idea that during a time of war no education is able to take place. His underlying meaning, having no education in a child’s life only leads to an uneducated group of people in the future. Again Whitman is able to create an image of how war effects peoples’ lives when he says “Leave not the bridegroom quiet- no happiness must he have with his bride.” Whitman uses the image of a “bridegroom” leaving his wife to show how young men during this time are called off to duty to defend their country or side. The underlying meaning of this is that new families are unable to be started because of the separation of husbands and wives

Whitman is trying to express the fact that the war h

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