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Walt Whitman's 'Beat ! Drums !'
The poem I chose to analysis is Walt Whitman, "Beat! Beat! Drums!” The poet uses the drums and bugles as symbols of the war itself. In this poem the poet shows that the instruments play so loudly that they disrupt everyone's lives, just like war changes a society.
The sounds of certain words can contribute to the meaning of the poem because if the sound of the words come off as “kind and quiet” it can change the whole theme of aggression and war. The word choice of the poet makes you feel like everything is happening so fast that there is no time for anything else. The words all flow together in a way to tell you that when there is a war going on it affects everything and everything one. The word choice gives the poem a feeling of aggression

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