The Influence Of Poetry During The American Civil War

The Civil War is the most devastating war that this nation has ever faced yet. With the weapons created by the Industrial Revolution, hundreds and thousands of men were slaughtered. After many endless fights between the Union and the Confederates, the North finally was able to pull it off and become victorious. The victory of the North determined the outcome of the Union and of slavery, but is causing many problems. There is the issue of how the nation would come back together and how the former slaves would act now that they are free. And now that the Civil War ended in 1865, what is known as Reconstruction has now begun.

The Civil War of 1861-1865 is a monumental piece of United States history. The brutal and barbaric war lasted only a mere 4 years, but drastically changed the course of history and determined whether the nation would abolish slavery or remain a tainted hypocritical nation of bondage.

The Civil War ,was the worst war in the eighteen hundreds. It put brother against brother, but before the war was worse. there were too many close calls. Some are what brought this monster of war to America, it created a divide that we never fully recovered from. First and largest matter was States rights that they fought for. Now They should be able to secede when ever they wanted, but the Government said they could not secede. So something definitely became amiss in our wonderful Country and that was only strike one, two more major problems and America is out of here.

The Civil War was a huge devastation for the United States, and the war that was going to determine if the U.S. would be broken into states or become an indivisible nation. The primary conflict of the Civil War was the difference that the North and South had about slavery. The North wanted to ban slavery, but the South wanted to continue having their slaves to do manual labor for them. The Union won, but not without the loss of 625,000 lives (McPherson 1).

The Civil War was known as the most bloodiest war. It resulted in 620,000 deaths and more than millions injured. The Civil War was a conflict with the Union against the Confederate states of America. The civil war mainly started because of conflicts between the free states and the slaves states. People did not want slaves in territories that were not yet states. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the presidency. He wanted slavery out of territories. As a result, the south seceded to form the Confederate states of America. Life during the Civil War was horrific because the conditions were detrimental Life in the military camps was as deleterious as it was on the battlefield.

The Civil War, a destructive and calamitous event in United States' history, which can never be forgotten. This was a complex conflict that took this nation through its darkest period. It cut to the very core of the political, economic, and social elements of American life. The civil war greatly impacted American history because it ended slavery, it led to military inventions, and it brought the north and south together.

     The Civil War was a four year armed conflict between northern and southern sections of the United States. The Civil War cost more American lives than any other war in history. There were bout 3 million people who fought in the beginning of the Civil War and about 600,000 people’s lives were lost at the end of the war. What began for many as a romantic adventure soon became a heartbreaking bitter struggle between the two parts of a divided country. This, however, was more than the industrial North fighting against the agricultural South. There were divided families with brother fighting brother. Some Northerners joined the Southern ranks and some Southerners were in the Union

The American Civil War has been named the “bloodiest war” in American history, resulting in the death of over 600,000 soldiers and civilians. Although it held a high death toll it is seen as the war that not only brought an end to slavery, but also has helped shape the America we see today. With strong racism in the South as well as progressive movements towards slave freedom in the North, along with deep economic, social and political differences resulted in a bloody war lasting four years.

Civil War can be also known as “War Between the States” that happened in the mid 19th century. The war was a result of decades simmering tensions and controversy between the North and South of United States over slavery, state’s right and moving West. The northern states leading by President Abraham Lincoln wanted to abolist slavery in the United States. On the other hand, the southern states fought against this policy. Over those decades before the war, there were many critical events that led to the Civil War. Though, in my opinions, the four most critical events that contributed to the outbreak out the war were The Missouri Compromise in 1820, Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, the Dred Scott Decision

When people talk about wars they refer to them as battles that were held and a number of deaths. But wars have bigger consequences. Long term issues. The American Civil War was no exception of it. The repercussions of this moment in history lasted years. No doubt it was not an easy transition. The reconstruction was not simple, after four years of war, the cities were burned, the fields didn’t produce, the economy was damaged, and the country was split. From 1865 to 1877 America lived what every family faces after rough moments, the “Reconstruction Era”.

The civil war is considered as the central event in the consciousness of the American history. The war determined what kind of nation the country would be. It was the most destructive and the largest conflict in the Western world from the end of the Napoleonic wars and 1914 before the beginning of the first World War.

The Civil War is one of the most important events that has ever taken place in history. It took place in America over a four span from 1861 to 1865 that involved the Union and the Confederate states of America at that time. Over three million people fought in the war and about 600,000 of those people were killed in the war. The Union had about 2,100,000 soldiers engaged in the war and the Confederacy had about 1,000,000 soldiers involved in the war. The war resulted from a lot of sectional differences that took place between the Union and the Confederacy. The Civil War is the greatest war that has ever taken place in America, because there so many different battles and so many important people that took place in the war.

The Civil War was one of the most significant time periods of the United States' history. The fight within the country turned out to last for 4 years long with approximately 620,000 casualties of soldiers. The Civil War has been the most intensive fight within the country throughout the history. The Northern abolitionists fought drastically with the Southern proslavery side, and eventually earned the victory of this war. The main conflict between the North and the South was about whether slavery should be prohibited or not. As a matter of fact, because of extremism and failure of leadership from both the North and the South, the Civil War was inevitable.

The American Civil War and the Spanish Civil War were primarily wars of principle. The conflicts represented a critical point for each respective nation, a time of either death or continuation for the countries. Both Whitman and Neruda exibit a key shared element in the poets' works of the concept of a cosmic rebirth illustrated in their poetry through a celebration of the perpetual cycle of life and death fostering optimism. This mutual philosophy is manifested in Neruda and Whitman's poetry in several interesting ways. One of the most striking biographical parallels between the two poets originates from their direct involvement in civil war. Whitman served as a nurse in war hospitals during the American

The war poet and war poetry in general were terms used firstly within context of the World War I.. From the beginning of the war times, poetry was written mostly by civilians, not by poets. Such poetry had no established identity. It was later, between 1914 and 1918 when this type of poetry acquired notion of genre, and so-called soldier-poets became a species. Enormous increase in writing poetry related to the war occurred. War poetry became very realistic, describing situation as it was perceived by participants and soldiers. Genre of war poetry was really powerful – it could dramatize, energize and inspire language used in poetry. (DAS,2013,n.p)