“War is kind” by Stephen Crane is the perfect example of irony. It also ties many war themes together nicely and is similar to “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”, and “O Captain! My Captain!” in various underlying ways, including war themes, tone, and mood.. Even though it shares themes with other literary works, it brings Stephen Crane’s creative views on war onto paper and melds all of the pains focused on in the other passages into one. Crane’s poem has many themes; a main one happens to be about the horrors on the battlefield. A few stanzas in the poem focus on what other soldiers see, experience, and deal with on a day-to-day basis. It also touches on the idea that some generals and higher positions had no problem sending soldiers into battle to die. Some of the scenes described in the poem are a soldier getting shot, trenches and fields of lifeless bodies, and a man dying and falling off his horse that runs away. Like scenes are described in all three other poems, gruesome deaths.
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Crane first addresses a weeping maiden, which suggests her lover died in battle, “ Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky/ And the affrighted steed ran on alone”. He also mentions a grieving mother, “Mother whose heart hung humble as a button/ On the bright splendid shroud of your son” and crying baby, “Do not weep, babe, for war is kind./ Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,/ Raged at his breast, gulped and
Crane first addresses a weeping maiden, which suggests her lover died in battle, “ Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky/ And the affrighted steed ran on alone”. He also mentions a grieving mother, “Mother whose heart hung humble as a button/ On the bright splendid shroud of your son” and crying baby, “Do not weep, babe, for war is kind./ Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,/ Raged at his breast, gulped and