Walt Whitman’s poetry reflects the Civil War not as a distant historical episode but as a lived, ongoing moral challenge. Through his role as witness, caregiver, and poet, he transformed personal experience into a powerful literary response to national crisis. His poems capture the war’s emotional complexity, balancing sorrow with compassion, and despair with a stubborn belief in human connection.
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