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    Stephen Crane was an American author born in 1871 who began writing at a young age and published many works before his early death from tuberculosis at age 28 in 1900. He served as a journalist and covered the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1896. This experience likely inspired his poem "War is Kind", which was published in 1898. The poem sarcastically describes war as something that is kind and portrays the glorification of battle and death of soldiers through repeating refrains telling readers "do not weep" and "war is kind".

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    Stephen Crane was an American author born in 1871 who began writing at a young age and published many works before his early death from tuberculosis at age 28 in 1900. He served as a journalist and covered the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1896. This experience likely inspired his poem "War is Kind", which was published in 1898. The poem sarcastically describes war as something that is kind and portrays the glorification of battle and death of soldiers through repeating refrains telling readers "do not weep" and "war is kind".

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    War Is Kind - 1

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    Stephen Crane was an American author born in 1871 who began writing at a young age and published many works before his early death from tuberculosis at age 28 in 1900. He served as a journalist and covered the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1896. This experience likely inspired his poem "War is Kind", which was published in 1898. The poem sarcastically describes war as something that is kind and portrays the glorification of battle and death of soldiers through repeating refrains telling readers "do not weep" and "war is kind".

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    War Is

    Kind
    Stephen Crane
    • born 1871, raised in New Jersey
    • began writing at 4, published works by age
    16
    • novelist, short story writer, journalist, and
    poet
    • endured a highly publicized scandal
    • left for Cuba to cover Spanish- American war
    in 1896
    • ship sank en route to Cuba and Crane spent
    several days floating in a dinghy
    • the war most likely served as inspiration for
    War is Kind
    • died 1900, aged 28, of tuberculosis
    Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind,
    Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
    And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
    Do not weep.
    War is kind.

    Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment,


    Little souls who thirst for fight,
    These men were born to drill and die.
    The unexplained glory flies above them.
    Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom--
    A field where a thousand corpses lie.

    Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.


    Because your father tumbles in the yellow trenches,
    Raged at his breast, gulped and died,
    Do not weep.
    War is kind.

    Swift blazing flag of the regiment,


    Eagle with crest of red and gold,
    These men were born to drill and die.
    Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
    Make plain to them the excellence of killing
    And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

    Mother whose heart hung humble as a button


    On the bright splendid shroud of your son,
    Do not weep.
    War is kind!
    War Is Kind

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