american war poetry. (taken from kaplan 2012) read the following poem by the american writer herman...
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Herman Melville’s “Shiloh”Analysis
American War Poetry
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Poetry Analysis Essay prompt
(Taken from Kaplan 2012)
Read the following poem by the American writer Herman Melville. In a well-organized essay, explain how Melville transforms a painful experience into something beautiful. In your analysis, consider such elements as imagery, tome, alliteration, symbolism, and end rhyme.
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Herman Melville
(August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) He was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick.
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BACKGROUND INFOThe Battle of Shiloh, in Tennessee, took place on 6-7 April 1862. Casualty levels were unprecedented: the 3500 men who died there amounted to more than the United States had lost in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Mexican War combined.
http://war-poets.blogspot.com/2009/10/herman-melville-shiloh.html
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What the prompt asks “how Melville
transforms a painful experience into something beautiful”
The techniques transform the pain of battle into a song of peace and respect
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Title and subtitle “Shiloh” = battle of Shiloh in the Civil
War A Requiem = a funeral song for the
departed Pays homage to those who died in battle Emphasizes the tragedy of war rather than
glorifying pain and heroic death
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TONE Peaceful,
somber Swallows Clouded days Forest field Night Noon Eve Hushed
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STRUCTURE Repeated refrain (lines 4,9,19) = musical
nature, suggests cyclical nature of life and death
Meter and rhyme = regularly irregular Soothing, peaceful Like a lullaby
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alliteration “S” and “sh” (whole poem)
Soothing peaceful Line 11 “parting groan” – like a calming shhh to
the dying “F” (lines 13-15)
Puts emphasis on the idea that in death, they are all equal, no longer “foes”
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Symbolism “April rain” (5)
Wash away the suffering “reborn” into afterlife
“night” (7) + “eve” (14) Symbol of death
“church” (9) Symbol of peace final resting place (graveyard)Shiloh Church before the
battle
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Irony “April”
Springtime usually connotes new life, but here it is all death
Lines 13-14 “Of dying foemen mingled there-- / Foemen at morn, but friends at eve”
Enemies in battle, but all equal in death now Line 16 “(What like a bullet can undeceive)”
The bullet, or death is the “great undeceiver” – shows soldiers they are not enemies any longer—were they ever?
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Irony continued Melville gives the fatally wounded the
opportunity to overcome their hostility. Americans all, they live as foe and die as friends: the schisms of civil war are healed in deaths which transform churchyard into graveyard. That the battlefield should have been a site of Christian worship emphasizes the appalling costs of this fratricide as well as the possibilities for its redress.
http://war-poets.blogspot.com/2009/10/herman-melville-shiloh.html
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Lame introductions Be careful in your introduction of
simply repeating the prompt. I read essay after essay that started with “Melville uses x, y, and z to transform a painful experience into something beautiful.”
This is unoriginal and boring and starts your essay off poorly Make it more original.