“The Wound Dresser” by Whitman can be interpreted and explained as an anti-war movement poem because it shows the brutal truth and realities about war. Instead of showing the patriotic view where soldiers are heroes, it displays war giving soldiers and families suffering and pain. In unit 16.2, “Veterans: The Casualties of War”, it informs the reader about how war has a negative effect on soldiers: “they suffer terrible physical and mental wounds that can maim them for life”. Often when soldiers come home from war, they have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, are more likely to become addicted to drugs, are more likely to be unemployed, and are more likely to commit suicide. This can relate to “The Wound Dresser” because the narrator does not
