Pages of War: Walt Whitman and the Civil War SOFREP Original Content
By Luke Ryan 01.13.2018#Expert Analysis Email Share Tweet
When most people thing of Walt Whitman, they think of “O Captain! my Captain!†Perhaps this is from a high school English class like mine, perhaps it’s from the “Dead Poets Society†movie with Robin Williams. However, he wrote hundreds of other poems and was quite popular in his day — though just as controversial, given some of his sexual themes throughout. But like most of the authors in the “Pages of War†series, poet Walt Whitman had very personal, intimate experiences with war and channeled it into his work.
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