Walt Whitman: Poems

"Beat! Beat! Drums!"

"Beat! Beat! Drums!"

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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).

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Beat! Beat! Drums!