A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Grey And Dim Analysis

Walt Whitman’s poem, ‘A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim’, describes the conditions in a civil war camp hospital. The speaker of the poem, Whitman himself, depicts the eerie scene of a medical tent during the civil war. The speaker wakes up to the haze of ‘daybreak’ and encounters 3 unattended dead bodies of 3 dead soldiers. Whitman goes into detail describing the faces of the fallen soldiers. Constantly asking himself “who” the men really are. With the use of his diction and other literary devices (i.e. figurative language and allusions), Whitman uses his writing of this poem as a thank you and tribute to the fallen soldiers who did not die in vain. Throughout the poem, Walt Whitman’s diction and style of writing demonstrates