5.03 Poetic Devices and Walt Whitman

Question

I Will Fight No More Beat! Beat! Drums!

Walt Whitman, 1861 Chief Joseph, 1877

Answer the question below. Use complete sentences and aim for about a full paragraph response. Use textual evidence that helps you support your choice. Remember to introduce your idea, provide textual evidence, and explain your response.

EVALUATE: Which selection has a more powerful theme about war? Why do you think this? Give textual evidence that helps support your choice.

Answer 1

What’s the difficulty you’re having with this question? Have you read the poems? You need to have gone deeper than the titles and answer why you respond as you do. I’ll be happy to see your paragraph and help you refine it, but I can’t answer for you.

Answer 2

Walt Whitman is saying , "Enough with war!" Chief Joseph of the a Nez Pierce has a title line that sounds equally like war is closing in on him, overwhelming him, or that he is ready to take it on and aim for victory. Of course, Chief Joseph, would later accept defeat, and say his famous, sorrowful line, " I will fight to live no more. "