There were many amazing poets that wrote about the Civil War. During the Civil War many different people wrote poems about the Civil War.
The most common person who wrote about the Civil War was Walt Whitman. Whitman’s poems were about realism and trandsadalism. Whiteman wrote 18 different poems about war. Whitman’s popular poem about the Civil War was “Leaves in the grass,” it was about celebrating democracy, nature, love and friendship. Walt Whitman’s birthplace on Long Island but his name was best known for gracing the shopping center across the street. It really was more as an adult that I could really appreciate the power and uniqueness of Whitman’s words especially apart from the walls of a suburban mall.
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In the 20th century a poet named Robert Lowell, he engaged the past of his Puritan forebears, Lowell's finest poem was called “For the Union Dead.” The southern poems their region’s history as a subject, seeking to make sense of the legacy of defeat in the Civil War known as racism. Walt Whitman offered up his poetry and his persona as a perfect reflection of the American he saw, it was daring, noble, brutish, sexual fighting and flawed. Even African Americans made poems about the civil war during slavery. They had 140 poems they appeared in the New York newspaper during the single tumultuous year of the Civil War. The National Anti-Slavery Standard and the Anglo-African and the poems they contain has been limited to microfilm or subscription. Dr. Weir and Lorang found a verse by figures previously unknown as poets. Fanny M. Jackson, a former slave who became one of the foremost educators of her age, contributed ‘The Black Volunteers’ and a mourning poem for a friend’s daughter to the Anglo- African. William Slade, a prominent black Civil leader in wartime Washington as well as a leader want in the White House wrote ‘The Slaves to His Star,’ Ellen Murray was an abolitionist who travelled from New England to South Carolina’s occupied Sea Islands to teach freed people there, contributed a cluster of poems to the National Anti- Slavery Standard. The people who contributed to them and the people who put them together during a crucial period of the war, Dr Weir said “The writers who sent poems to the Anglo-African and the National Anti-Slavery Standard used their poetry as a means to express their views and participate in public debate. The poems in the edition reveal contemporary responses to a host of wartime issue and events: emancipation, African Americans enlistment, diplomatic relations and civilian duty amongst them. Treating love, loss, trauma, hope,
The most common person who wrote about the Civil War was Walt Whitman. Whitman’s poems were about realism and trandsadalism. Whiteman wrote 18 different poems about war. Whitman’s popular poem about the Civil War was “Leaves in the grass,” it was about celebrating democracy, nature, love and friendship. Walt Whitman’s birthplace on Long Island but his name was best known for gracing the shopping center across the street. It really was more as an adult that I could really appreciate the power and uniqueness of Whitman’s words especially apart from the walls of a suburban mall.
There was many poets the …show more content…
In the 20th century a poet named Robert Lowell, he engaged the past of his Puritan forebears, Lowell's finest poem was called “For the Union Dead.” The southern poems their region’s history as a subject, seeking to make sense of the legacy of defeat in the Civil War known as racism. Walt Whitman offered up his poetry and his persona as a perfect reflection of the American he saw, it was daring, noble, brutish, sexual fighting and flawed. Even African Americans made poems about the civil war during slavery. They had 140 poems they appeared in the New York newspaper during the single tumultuous year of the Civil War. The National Anti-Slavery Standard and the Anglo-African and the poems they contain has been limited to microfilm or subscription. Dr. Weir and Lorang found a verse by figures previously unknown as poets. Fanny M. Jackson, a former slave who became one of the foremost educators of her age, contributed ‘The Black Volunteers’ and a mourning poem for a friend’s daughter to the Anglo- African. William Slade, a prominent black Civil leader in wartime Washington as well as a leader want in the White House wrote ‘The Slaves to His Star,’ Ellen Murray was an abolitionist who travelled from New England to South Carolina’s occupied Sea Islands to teach freed people there, contributed a cluster of poems to the National Anti- Slavery Standard. The people who contributed to them and the people who put them together during a crucial period of the war, Dr Weir said “The writers who sent poems to the Anglo-African and the National Anti-Slavery Standard used their poetry as a means to express their views and participate in public debate. The poems in the edition reveal contemporary responses to a host of wartime issue and events: emancipation, African Americans enlistment, diplomatic relations and civilian duty amongst them. Treating love, loss, trauma, hope,