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wasn't a very big fan of war. He thought everything about it was negative. We can see this in his poetry. In “Beat! Beat! Drums!”, he expresses his feelings toward war using symbolism. The drums and the bugles are examples of two symbols. He is using thes ....

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.... people who got wounded from the war. He feels bad for them and wants to save them desperately. This shows that he dislikes the war because he felt there was no need for them being injured. If it wasn't for the war, the people wouldn't be that way. He doesn't state these beliefs directly, however it is easy to see through his words. Walt Whitman mentions his dislike of war throughout his poems. He may do this indirectly but his message is abundantly clear. He is obviously anti-war and has only negative aspects of it. He hates the idea of war and shows it in his poetry. ....