Civil War Poetry
There were many reasons why Civil War poets wrote about the war. Some used the war to express their ideas concerning society, religion, and man's place in the world. While others aspired to capture the effects of the war and its impact on the soldiers and their families. Few of the poets trying to capture the war's effects approached realism because sentimentality and melodramatic temper was typical for their era. There were so many different feelings express in the poetry about the Civil War. I plan to compare the similarities and contrast the differences of poems by authors of this period, both black and white. I also plan to discuss the affect of the North verses the South conflict from the respective point of view. They concentrated on different feelings and actions during and after the Civil War. War poetry written by noncombatants is significant because of its acknowledgement of other cultural aspects of the Civil War. The everyday people that were affected-- the housewives, medical doctors, teachers, preachers, bankers, journalists, schoolboys and girls-- are valuable because they consider themselves to be representation of society. The southern and northern poems have many in commons but also many contras
This was also Walt Whitman's (another 19th century poet) opinion but he is a whole other topic. Sherman, University of Illinois Press Urban and Chicago 19923- The Poetry of the American Civil War, edited by Lee Steinmetz 1960 Michigan State University Press 4- Poetry and Music of the War Between the States, created by Kathie Fraser 1983 by Swinging Door Music-BMI at http://users. She talks of the father attending to everyday choirs, "Driving Home the Cattle". This poem shares a similarity with "The Colored Soldiers". I mention him only as an insight to others with this opinion. Here one gets the impression of the father's loneliness. He or she writes of the American flag like the other poems and of the honor and pride the soldiers and their families felt. Another poem from the 'Union' I would like to touch upon "The Dying Soldier" by an unknown author. He writes this poem in remembrance of the twelve percent of the union army that was African American. " (Also from The Poetry of the Civil War- pg. There is an infinite amount of pride bestowed upon the soldiers. Mostly all of the poems express the seriousness of the war and also the horrible effects it had on America, but in the end there are many good aspects of the war. The second 'war' being the one between black slaves and slave owners. Another poem by an African American author Paul Lawrence Dunbar called, "The Colored Soldier" depicts, as well as "The Reason Why" how African American soldiers fought bravely for the union. Everything is imbued with the tragic or the heroic.
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