ering.In conclusion, Whitman conveys the pain and suffering of the people in his collection of poetry, “Drum-Taps” in order to convey the pointlessness and destructiveness of the war. As said by Whitman, war is nothing to sing song of praise s about or glorify. There is ultimately no purpose to warfare, everyone suffers, it is essentially a no-win scenario. It is the desires of men, their insatiable greed for land, wealth and power that moves them to send wave after wave of human beings, without blinking, into the meat grinder. The end result of all these periods of warfare, corruption and essential “human-quality” of our lifestyles is the type of life we live right now, how we are surrounded by luxury yet the rest of the world is not so fortunate to be so rich and living the good life. Why wouldn’t we be portrayed as greedy devils trying to steal what little other nations have? It is the “the cost of my desire, sleep now in the fire”....
