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33 items with this tag.
Jul 24, 2026
Year of Meteors (1859-60
graph/work
author/whitman
form/free_verse
histref/american_civil_war
concept/mortality
concept/transience
motif/stars
concept/martyrdom
motif/the_city
Jul 24, 2026
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
graph/work
author/whitman
form/elegy
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/mortality
motif/flowers
motif/stars
motif/birds
motif/death
motif/the_grave
motif/spring
motif/rose
character/abraham_lincoln
character/death_personified
archetype/martyr
concept/war_and_its_cost
histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
While Not the Past Forgetting
graph/work
author/whitman
histref/american_civil_war
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/grief_and_loss
motif/the_grave
motif/rose
concept/mercy
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
form/elegy
Jul 24, 2026
What I Saw in America
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/travel_writing
form/essay
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/satire_of_society
concept/justice
concept/identity
concept/critique_of_progress
histref/american_civil_war
character/abraham_lincoln
character/thomas_jefferson
character/h_g_wells
character/henry_ford
character/andrew_jackson
character/walt_whitman
character/charles_dickens
concept/democracy
concept/slavery
concept/anti_industrialism
concept/distributism
concept/common_man
concept/conformity_vs_individualism
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/money_and_avarice
concept/prohibition
topos/open_road_homecoming
motif/city
motif/fire
motif/money_and_gold
motif/machine
motif/flag
setting/america
setting/new_york
setting/washington_dc
setting/american_south
setting/american_west
setting/new_england_america
setting/american_frontier
archetype/common_man_2
archetype/pilgrim
archetype/outsider
form/satire
histref/irish_question
histref/puritanism
histref/french_revolution
histref/industrial_revolution
Jul 24, 2026
War and its Cost · American Civil War · Battlefield
graph/work
author/dickinson
form/lyric
concept/heroism
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/swords_weapons
motif/death
topos/war_as_glory
histref/american_civil_war
archetype/hero
setting/the_battlefield
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/paradox
concept/self_and_soul
archetype/martyr
concept/mortality
concept/disillusionment
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/identity
motif/crown
form/narrative_poem
concept/immortality
concept/death
form/letter
motif/fire
motif/clothing
topos/the_last_stand
concept/honour
Jul 24, 2026
Virginia--The West
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/the_union
concept/war_and_its_cost
form/allegory
archetype/great_mother
motif/swords_weapons
histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
To Thee Old Cause
graph/work
author/whitman
form/free_verse
concept/democracy
concept/war_and_its_cost
histref/american_civil_war
concept/immortality
motif/the_book
Jul 24, 2026
Thoughts
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/democracy
setting/the_american_west
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/death
concept/transience
histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion
graph/work
form/nonfiction
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/the_common_man
concept/mortality
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concept/friendship
motif/comradeship
concept/humility
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
form/autobiography
histref/american_civil_war
setting/washington_dc
Jul 24, 2026
The Wound-Dresser
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/comradeship
motif/blood
motif/death
concept/memory_and_time
concept/love_divine
archetype/outcast_wanderer
histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
The Wallabout Martyrs
graph/work
author/whitman
histref/american_civil_war
archetype/martyr
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/dust
motif/the_grave
histref/classical_antiquity
character/odysseus
form/epigram
form/free_verse
Jul 24, 2026
The Return of the Heroes
graph/work
author/whitman
motif/autumn
motif/nature
concept/heroism
concept/war_and_its_cost
archetype/great_mother
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
The Captain of the Pole-Star, and Other Tales
graph/work
concept/alienation
motif/sea_and_voyage
author/conan_doyle
form/short_story
concept/uncanny
concept/terror_and_horror
concept/madness
concept/mesmerism
concept/death_and_love
motif/ghosts
motif/supernatural
motif/ship
motif/snow
histref/american_civil_war
setting/ship
setting/america
archetype/ghost
archetype/outsider
Jul 24, 2026
Spirit Whose Work Is Done (Washington City, 1865)
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/swords_weapons
motif/the_supernatural
topos/poet_as_prophet
histref/american_civil_war
setting/the_battlefield
Jul 24, 2026
On America
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/essay
histref/american_civil_war
concept/honour
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
character/abraham_lincoln
concept/nostalgia
character/john_wilkes_booth
concept/slavery
concept/reconciliation
concept/democracy
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/anti_industrialism
concept/power_and_corruption
topos/golden_age
topos/ubi_sunt
motif/battlefield_2
motif/honour_2
setting/american_south
setting/america
setting/battlefield
setting/american_frontier
archetype/martyr_saint
histref/puritanism
histref/first_world_war
Jul 24, 2026
On Abraham Lincoln
graph/work
form/nonfiction
author/chesterton
form/essay
concept/paradox
concept/heroism
concept/truth
concept/martyrdom
concept/critique_of_progress
archetype/martyr
character/abraham_lincoln
histref/american_civil_war
character/ulysses_s_grant
concept/vanity_of_worldly_things
concept/conformity_vs_individualism
concept/self_reliance_and_earned_success
motif/wine_and_drink
motif/marriage
setting/america
archetype/self_made_man
form/aphorism
histref/puritanism
Jul 24, 2026
Old War-Dreams
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/dreams
motif/death
motif/memory
histref/american_civil_war
setting/the_battlefield
Jul 24, 2026
MY 71st Year
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/mortality
concept/memory_and_time
histref/american_civil_war
concept/grief_and_loss
motif/night
concept/faith
form/free_verse
Jul 24, 2026
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/liberty
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/blood
motif/death
concept/grief_and_loss
histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
LINES WRITTEN IN COMMONPLACE BOOK OF MISS BARBOUR, DAUGHTER OF THE MINISTER OF THE U.S.A. TO ENGLAND
graph/work
author/coleridge
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/reform
concept/friendship
histref/american_civil_war
histref/the_bible
Jul 24, 2026
Leaves of Grass
graph/work
author/whitman
form/free_verse
form/epic
form/lyric
concept/self_and_soul
concept/identity
concept/democracy
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/the_common_man
concept/immortality
motif/death
concept/joy
concept/the_sublime
concept/lust
concept/self_and_cosmos
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
motif/grass
motif/nature
motif/the_sea
motif/comradeship
topos/the_open_road
topos/book_of_nature
topos/poet_as_prophet
setting/america
histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
Interpolation Sounds
graph/work
author/whitman
histref/american_civil_war
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/death
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motif/music_and_song
setting/the_battlefield
form/free_verse
Jul 24, 2026
Come to Think of It
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concept/economics
author/chesterton
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concept/critique_of_progress
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/original_sin
concept/rationcination_detection
character/hamlet
character/macbeth
character/abraham_lincoln
character/elizabeth_bennet
character/mr_wickham
character/emma_woodhouse
character/three_witches
character/napoleon
character/ferdinand_foch
character/charles_dickens
character/king_george_v
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concept/democracy
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/money_and_avarice
concept/distributism
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/honour
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/vulgarity
topos/ubi_sunt
motif/serpent_snake
motif/money_and_gold
setting/america
setting/american_south
setting/italy
archetype/king
archetype/self_made_man
archetype/detective
archetype/tyrant
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form/ode
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histref/american_civil_war
histref/french_revolution
histref/puritanism
histref/irish_question
histref/first_world_war
histref/regency_georgian_england
Jul 24, 2026
First O Songs for a Prelude
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
motif/drums_and_bugles
motif/the_city
setting/manhattan
motif/swords_weapons
topos/war_as_glory
histref/american_civil_war
form/free_verse
Jul 24, 2026
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/slavery
histref/american_civil_war
motif/flags_banners
archetype/crone
setting/the_american_south
form/ballad
concept/social_injustice
Jul 24, 2026
Drum-Taps
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/heroism
concept/the_common_man
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motif/music_and_song
motif/the_journey
motif/comradeship
form/free_verse
form/elegy
form/lyric
histref/american_civil_war
archetype/martyr
setting/america
Jul 24, 2026
Eighteen Sixty-One
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
histref/american_civil_war
motif/swords_weapons
concept/the_common_man
form/ode
Jul 24, 2026
Death of General Grant
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/heroism
archetype/hero
concept/war_and_its_cost
histref/american_civil_war
topos/theatrum_mundi
concept/grief_and_loss
motif/the_grave
form/elegy
Jul 24, 2026
Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
graph/work
form/nonfiction
author/whitman
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concept/war_and_its_cost
histref/american_civil_war
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
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concept/the_common_man
concept/democracy
concept/the_artist_and_society
motif/death
setting/the_battlefield
setting/america
concept/power_and_corruption
Jul 24, 2026
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
graph/work
author/whitman
form/ode
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concept/democracy
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/the_self
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/the_artist_and_society
topos/poet_as_prophet
concept/liberty
histref/american_civil_war
archetype/prophet
character/abraham_lincoln
Jul 24, 2026
Beat! Beat! Drums!
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/drums_and_bugles
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histref/american_civil_war
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concept/grief_and_loss
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Jul 24, 2026
Ashes of Soldiers
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/ghosts
motif/comradeship
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histref/american_civil_war
Jul 24, 2026
A Twilight Song
graph/work
author/whitman
histref/american_civil_war
concept/war_and_its_cost
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motif/fire
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