Term Papers on American Poetry

Term Paper Title	American Poetry
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American Poetry

In the chosen poems, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, and

Sigfried Sassoon each have a common viewpoint: war brings out

the worst in man, a feeling buried deep inside the heart. Even

with this clotting of the mind due to the twisting ways of war, a

flicker of remorse, a dream of someplace, something else still

exists within the rational thought. These poems express hope, the

hope that war will not be necessary.  They show that man only kills

because he must, not because of some inbred passion for death.

These three authors express this viewpoint in their own ways in

their poems: "The Man He Killed", "Reconciliation", and "Dreamers".

       In The Man He Killed, Hardy speaks about the absurdity of

war. He gives a narrative of how he kills a "foe", and that this

"foe" could be a friend if they met "by some old ancient inn",

instead of the battlefield. Hardy says "...quaint and curious war

is...you shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar

is..." In this Hardy speaks how war twists the mind, and also makes

you kill people you have no personal vendetta against.


       In Reconciliation, Whitman shows the devastation of war. In

a war, you kill someone and even if you win, you lose. Whitman

describes a man mourning over the death of his foe. He rejoices

over the ultimate death of war "Beautiful that war and all its

deeds of carnage must...be utterly lost." He also feels great

remorse over his so called enemy's death "For my enemy...a man

divine as myse...

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