Length5h 16m
About this audiobook
Walt Whitman's "The Wound-Dresser" is a sixty-five-line free-verse poem in four sections describing the suffering in the Civil War hospitals and the poet's suffering, faithfulness to duty, and developing compassion as he tended to soldiers' physical wounds and gave comfort. Published at war's end, the poem opens with an old veteran speaking, imaginatively suggesting some youths gathered about who have asked him to tell of his most powerful memories. The children request stories of battle glory, but the poet quickly dismisses these as ephemeral. He then narrates a journey through a military hospital such as Whitman experienced in Washington, D.C., during the second half of the war. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length5 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
5LETTERS OF 1862-3
2THE GREAT ARMY OF THE WOUNDED
6LETTERS OF 1864
3LIFE AMONG FIFTY THOUSAND SOLDIERS
7Footnotes:
4HOSPITAL VISITS
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