" The speaker has a vision of the "debris of all the slain soldiers of war" in which he notes the dead "suffered not /
The speaker of this poem asserts he will use "all the scenes of life and the workshops" to decorate a house after asking, "what shall I hang on the chamber walls?" The speaker has a vision of the "debris of all the slain soldiers of war" in which he notes the dead "suffered not / The living remained and suffered." The speaker describes walking with his companions "the knowledge of death" and "the thought of death" to a swamp where they hear a thrush sing the "carol of death." The speaker of this poem leaves a flower on a coffin that he watched "pass through lanes and streets" after earlier lamenting "the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night." For 10 points, name this elegy for Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman.
The speaker of this poem asserts he will use "all the scenes of life and the workshops" to decorate a house after asking, "what shall I hang on the chamber walls?
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"