Walt Whitman: Poems
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
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"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
I need a symbol?
Whitman uses the drums and bugles as symbols of the war itself (during the wars of early American history, drums and bugles would signal the beginning of each battle).
Beat! Beat! Drums!