Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind By Stephen Crane

In Crane’s poem “ Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind”, the title itself brings to mind images of war and sadness. The word war suggest tragedy and the word weep adds to the feeling of sadness. A reader would expect a poem entitled “Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind” to be about sadness, And in this case the readers expectations would be met. This poem tells the story of a woman who has lost her father along with her son in war, and depictions of war. Such as, “ A field where a thousand corpses lie”. As the women in the poem is weeping because she has lost everything in the war, somebody keeps saying “Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind”.
Stephen Crane has created a mood of sadness, and loss through the use of specific words and phrases.