A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim (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 “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim” is a fifteen-line poem written in the free verse that is characteristic of much of Whitman’s work. The poem is broken into four uneven stanzas, ranging from one line to six lines in length. Although ostensibly a narrative influenced by the poet’s experiences as a nurse during the Civil War, the poem is also a meditation upon humanity’s inability to learn the lessons of the past.
Much of Whitman’s work, particularly his lengthy meditative poem “Song of Myself” (1855), is profoundly...
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