The Artilleryman’s Vision (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walt Whitman
- First Published: 1865
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
The Poem
Walt Whitman’s “The Artilleryman’s Vision” records the nighttime apparitions of a Civil War veteran after the war has ended. Although “the wars are over long” and this former artilleryman is lying in the safety of his own bedroom, with wife and infant nearby, the memories of fierce battles remain with him, surfacing after midnight in a nightmarish mental picture. “There in the room as I wake from sleep this vision presses upon me,” Whitman’s speaker, the artilleryman, informs us.
The vision presents the commencement of a Civil War battle in...
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