American War Poetry. (Taken from Kaplan 2012) Read the following poem by the American writer Herman Melville. In a well-organized essay, explain how Melville.

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American War Poetry

(Taken from Kaplan 2012) Read the following poem by the American writer Herman Melville. In a well-organized essay, explain how Melville transforms a painful experience into something beautiful. In your analysis, consider such elements as imagery, tome, alliteration, symbolism, and end rhyme. (Taken from Kaplan 2012) Read the following poem by the American writer Herman Melville. In a well-organized essay, explain how Melville transforms a painful experience into something beautiful. In your analysis, consider such elements as imagery, tome, alliteration, symbolism, and end rhyme.

(August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) He was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick.

The Battle of Shiloh, in Tennessee, took place on 6-7 April Casualty levels were unprecedented: the 3500 men who died there amounted to more than the United States had lost in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Mexican War combined. shiloh.html

 “how Melville transforms a painful experience into something beautiful”  The techniques transform the pain of battle into a song of peace and respect

 “Shiloh” = battle of Shiloh in the Civil War  A Requiem = a funeral song for the departed  Pays homage to those who died in battle  Emphasizes the tragedy of war rather than glorifying pain and heroic death

 Peaceful, somber  Swallows  Clouded days  Forest field  Night  Noon  Eve  Hushed

 Repeated refrain (lines 4,9,19) = musical nature, suggests cyclical nature of life and death  Meter and rhyme = regularly irregular  Soothing, peaceful  Like a lullaby

 “S” and “sh” (whole poem)  Soothing peaceful  Line 11 “parting groan” – like a calming shhh to the dying  “F” (lines 13-15)  Puts emphasis on the idea that in death, they are all equal, no longer “foes”

 “April rain” (5)  Wash away the suffering  “reborn” into afterlife  “night” (7) + “eve” (14)  Symbol of death  “church” (9)  Symbol of peace  final resting place (graveyard) Shiloh Church before the battle

 “April”  Springtime usually connotes new life, but here it is all death  Lines “Of dying foemen mingled there-- / Foemen at morn, but friends at eve”  Enemies in battle, but all equal in death now  Line 16 “(What like a bullet can undeceive)”  The bullet, or death is the “great undeceiver” – shows soldiers they are not enemies any longer— were they ever?

 Melville gives the fatally wounded the opportunity to overcome their hostility. Americans all, they live as foe and die as friends: the schisms of civil war are healed in deaths which transform churchyard into graveyard. That the battlefield should have been a site of Christian worship emphasizes the appalling costs of this fratricide as well as the possibilities for its redress.

 Be careful in your introduction of simply repeating the prompt. I read essay after essay that started with “Melville uses x, y, and z to transform a painful experience into something beautiful.”  This is unoriginal and boring and starts your essay off poorly Make it more original.