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Analysis of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
My first impression of the poem "War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was that this young man had experienced the ferocity of war in all of its intensity. Published in the year of 1899 at the same time when America was rejoicing with the conclusion of its victorious foreign involvement, The Spanish-American War. This war, depicted by the newspapers as a glorious adventure, was c ....
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.... in the first stanza shows his contempt for the acts of war.
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
I found it especially disturbing, when the author addresses the grieving mate or lover that will be left behind and alone because of the death of her man. He does depict the typical Hollywood scene of a gallant soldier violently dismounted and mortally woun ....
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