Walt Whitman's 'Beat ! Drums'

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Another poet of the Romantic, Artistic Movement is Walt Whitman, who wrote Beat! Beat! Drums! It was composed of three stanzas and every line starts with "Beat! beat! drums! —blow! bugles! blow!", this is because he was talking about the ravages of the civil war which is the theme of this poem. He used onomatopoeia and anaphora to emphasize the importance of the war. In this poem he expressed excitement, energy, and urgency he wants people to play the instrument as loudly and powerfully that it fills the doors and windows of the church and of the schools. Unlike Longfellow and Dickinson Whitman wrote his poem in a free verse structure he did not use rhyme nor rhythm. He used alliteration, punctuations, and to get his point across. he used
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