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Comparing The Artilleryman's Vision And Letter To His Mother

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Most famously known for vivid, descriptive poems which move and inspire people worldwide. Walt Whitman, a famous American writer, has two very famous pieces which were both written from personal experiences. “The Artilleryman’s Vision” and “Letter to his Mother” are very homogeneous pieces relating to the Civil War. They differ, however, in tone and in the intended audience in order to depict the experiences of the Civil war.
Now in the extraordinary poem “The Artilleryman’s Vision” Walt Whitman gives vivid first point of view descriptions as how the soldiers described the battlefield. The tone of this poem is a very astringent tone as the soldier describes how the battlefields is full of horrific scenes such as the “suffocating white smoke
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