Civil War Poetry
There were many reasons why Civil War poets wrote about the war. Some used the war to express their ideas concerning society, religion, and man’s place in the world. While others aspired to capture the effects of the war and its impact on the soldiers and their families. Few of the poets trying to capture the war’s effects approached realism because sentimentality and melodramatic temper was typical for their era. There were so many different feelings express in the poetry about the Civil War. I plan to compare the similarities and contrast the differences of poems by authors of this period, both black and white. I also plan to discuss the affect of the North verses the South conflict from the respective point of view. They concentrated on different feelings and actions during and after the Civil War. War poetry written by noncombatants is significant because of its acknowledgement of other cultural aspects of the Civil War. The everyday people that were affected-- the housewives, medical doctors, teachers, preachers, bankers, journalists, schoolboys and girls-- are valuable because they consider themselves to be representation of society. The southern and northern poems have many in commons but also many contras
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Approximate Word count = 2116
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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