Subject Of War In The Poems Of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, And Sandburg

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the moment rules. "Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the
houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds", "Make no parley - stop for
no expostulation." "Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's
entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie
awaiting the hearses,".
In "The Arsenal at Springfield", Longfellow notes the senselessness of
war. "The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through the ages that
have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own." He also
indicates that war could be avoided if man would be more caring and try
harder to avoid it. ""Were half the power, that fills the world with
terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem
the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts."
Crane and Longfellow point out the cruelty of war and note the
harshness of it. Whitman points out the equal sense of a loss of reason in
the name of war, but putting aside ...

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