War Is Kind By Stephen Crane

The speaker addresses the hurt that three people experience because of the loss of a loved one. He tries to justify the means in which these loved ones were lost but he cannot justify war. It is ironic that Stephen Crane’s title of the poem and basically his most common phrase or chorus throughout, is the phrase “war is kind.” In reality, war is the opposite, it is disastrous, destructive, and catastrophic not only to the cities and towns it touches but also to the families and people of that nation or other nations involved. There are five stanzas, two of which are like the chorus, the other three are like verses in a song. The verses depict reality for the three personas that the speaker characterizes, in fact, the speaker tries to