War Is Kind By Stephen Crane

“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane, is a poem that is very famous, and is about, well, war!
War, violence, shooting, and death is what most of his famous works are about. We read in Biography.com that Stephen Crane went to college and never actually was in a war. He wrote “A Red Badge of Courage”, a book that was about the psychological part of war and how the soldier felt while he was in battle. Even though he never fought in an actual war he did a lot of research and what he wrote was very true. When his book became famous he became a war correspondent and went overseas to cover war. He tried to go to Cuba did not make it, but did go to Greece and wrote about the Turkish-Greek war.

“War is kind” was published in 1899 in a volume named “War is kind and Other lines”.
It is a poem about War and in the poem, the narrator tells maidens, babes and mothers that war is kind. We know that war is not actually kind, because how could dying and suffering and losing someone you love be kind. Crane repeats over and over that war is kind but he uses phrases like “your father tumbled in the yellow trenches” and “a field where a thousand corpses lie” that show that war is definitely not kind.
The wives or the maidens as he calls them, he tells them “Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky” he is talking about how men look to heaven when they are dying and “ the affrighted steed ran on alone”, we know that in the Civil War men rode on horses and when they were shot or killed they would fall off of their horse and the would be scared and run off. He tells the babes or the children of the soldiers that “your father tumbled in the yellow trenches” and we know that during war battles so many died that they were thrown into