Part one of term paper
wasn't a very big fan of war. He thought everything about it was negative. We can see this in his poetry. In “Beat! Beat! Drums!”, he expresses his feelings toward war using symbolism. The drums and the bugles are examples of two symbols. He is using these objects as representing war. Whitman starts off each stanza with the same line ...

Part two of term paper
... this symbolism throughout the rest of the poem. Whitman also speaks of how he doesn't like the war in other poems of his. He does this in “The Wound-Dresser.” He speaks of the war as his strangest days. They were long days of sweat and dust. The reader can tell by the explanations by Whitman that he doesn't appreciate war. He also talks about the people who got wounded from the war. He feels bad for them and wants to save them desperately. This shows that he dislikes the war because h ...