rapped in anyway always makes a person search for freedom.5. Stephen Crane’s word choice in “Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind” , describes actions of the soldiers in war and the reality of fighting in the battles. The word choice of wild hands flying in the beginning of the poem is to portray a young soldier being shot, the reality of the pain and the death is portrayed in Crane’ first word choice in his poem. Also Crane used an image of a patriotic flag in the line “The unexplained glory flies above them,” this statement not only gives an image of a flag but it leaves the question of why war is fought, just for a piece of fabric. At the end of the poem Crane gives the image of a gun, the killing machine, in the line “Point for them the virtue of slaughter.” humans give up life for their country and most don’t even know what reason they are fighting for.6.American poetry is an explanation of what suffering the people had to go through to get America established to what it is today. Normally all of the American poems were in a negative tone but that was to show the suffering of the new nation, like in Crane’s poem he wrote about war(Civil War) and the nation suffered because of the myriad of deaths. But even though there was suffering all of the poems gave a sense of hope, such as the Navajo’s poem, they had been through the worst of times by being forced away from their homes but through it all they still could find beauty wherever they were forced to live. These themes in the American poetry are an emotional dictation of America’s history. Poetry gives life to the American history which people normally find to be boring...
