Look Down, Fair Moon.

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LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene; Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple; On the dead, on their backs, with their arms toss’d wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.

Walt Whitman

Stemning:: Trist
Emner:: night, death, sorrow, war, moon

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Walt Whitman takes us into the immediate aftermath of violence. The speaker isn’t describing a distant scene but talking directly to the moon, begging it to look down and bathe a field of dead soldiers.

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LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this ;

On the dead, on their backs, with their arms wide,

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