Come Up from the Fields Father

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"Come Up from the Fields Father" is a poignant Civil War–era poem by Walt Whitman that depicts a family's grief upon learning of their son's death in battle.

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instanceOf literary work
poem
author Walt Whitman NERFINISHED
containsCharacter the father
the messenger
the mother
the son
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Walt Whitman NERFINISHED
depicts impact of war on civilians
parental grief for a fallen soldier
form free verse
genre lyric poem
war poem
historicalContext American Civil War home front NERFINISHED
language English
literaryDevice contrast between pastoral life and war
imagery
symbolism
literaryPeriod 19th-century American literature
meter irregular
movement American Romanticism NERFINISHED
American realism
narrativeFocus a family learning of their son’s death in battle
partOf Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry corpus NERFINISHED
setting American Civil War NERFINISHED
subjectMatter a letter reporting a soldier’s fatal wounding
theme death
family
grief
loss
mother’s sorrow
war
tone poignant
somber
tragic
writtenBy Walt Whitman NERFINISHED

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