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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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ISBN10: 1072703289
ISBN13: 9781072703280
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2019
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781072703280
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2019
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The overall thematic movement of Battle-Pieces is from the chaos of war to the order of peace and reconciliation, a movement also evident in Drum-Taps (1865), Walt Whitman's collection of Civil War poems. Melville's volume's early poems depict a nation torn asunder by a violent storm, but the war's end and the North's victory reestablish order in the American universe. For example, Aurora-Borealis, a poem commemorating the end of the war, opens with the question, What power disbands the Northern Lights/ After their steely play?
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