1. Walt Whitman
... just crazy. Historians consider the Civil War as one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. Through the eyes of a hospital attendant, there must have been nothing but rows of cots containing dead or dying. Walt Whitman was a hospital attendant who treated many soldiers, and watched many of them suffer as they died. In his collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass, the section, "Drum- Taps", shows how Whitman ... conveys the pain and suffering endured by the North and the South in the Civil War to express the pointlessness and destructiveness of the war. In his collection of poetry, Whitman ...
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- Grade Level: High School