Literature of War: Week 4
| September 26-30 | Reading | Themes and Quizzes |
| Monday | Walt Whitman: "Eighteen
Sixty-One," "Beat! Beat! Drums!," "Song of the Banner at
Daybreak," "Over the Carnage Rose a Prophetic Voice," in Civil War
Poetry and Prose
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| Tuesday | Whitman, Selections from Memorandum
during the War (1875-76), pp. 41-49 Hedges, pp. 43-61 |
Quiz 3 |
| Thursday | Whitman, Selections from Memorandum
during the War (1875-76), pp. 49-59 Poems: "Come Up from the Fields, Father," "Vigil Strange I kept on the field One Night," "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown"
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| Friday | Whitman, "Year that Trembled and
Reel'd Beneath Me," "The Wound Dresser," "Dirge for Two
Veterans," "The Artilleryman's Vision," "O Captain! My Captain!" Hedges, pp. 63-82 |
revised September 27, 2005