Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day

In the poem, Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day, written by Walter Whiteman on May 4^th, 1865, he describes the life of a military soldier and their purpose of being in the army. He portrays the soldiers as people who cant win and cant lose but instead the outcome of their situation is always death. Walter Whitman says claims that the “stormy conflicts,” between the soldiers is not even their fight but is required to fight for something that they may or may not believe in. Walter uses an exquisite quote to describe a soldier in battle, when he says, “Nor Victory, nor defeat—no more time’s dark events, Charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky.” When Whitman calls the soldiers, clouds going across the sky, he was referring to the fact that when they die fighting for their nation of belief that the soldier will go to heaven. In the poem there is no rhyme at the end of each line because he is showing that no two soldiers on the battle are the same and they all have their own identity. There is also no rhythm in the poem and a very dark tone to the way Walter wrote. He ends the poem talking about a soldier being buried in a coffin with the sounds of singing in the background and the doors of the coffin being shut. In the poem, Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day, Walter Whitman used a dark tone to describe the life and the outcome of a soldiers life.