In Poems "The Man He Killed", "Reconciliation", And "Dreamers", The Authors Show That Man Kills Because He Must

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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 myself is dead." He then shows his love for the enemy "I...bend down
and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin." He shows war
twisting the mind of a soldier who then deeply regretted his actions.

In Dreamers, Sassoon shows the soldiers dreaming of heavenly places,
while at the same time they are at war. Yet these heavenly places are things we
take for granted everyday, such as "clean beds", "picture shows", or "firelit
homes". These men have learned to appreciate them, and now are their everyday
dreams, while they are in "foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats, and in the ruined
trenches, ...

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