He drew on his wartime nursing experience for the poem "The Wound-Dresser"
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ARE MEN STRANGERS IN NURSING?..THE STORY OF WALT ...  Aug 27, 2016 ... He was with many soldiers as they drew their dying breaths (LeRoy 2015, Petiprin 2016). ... Two of his poems from that period are: 'The Wound Dresser' and ... an insightful account of his wartime experiences (Petiprin, 2016).
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WALT WHITMAN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - K-State ...  He poured this experience into his post-war poetry and later editions of Leaves and in doing ...... Whitman believed this was his mission and as the Wound Dresser he saved ... as a nurse in Union hospitals, but his poetry was affected as well. .... David Reynolds argues, The poem mixes wartime ...... Faust, Drew Gilpin.
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J! Archive - Show #3409, aired 1999-06-03  If his employee's price is $50.00, Bill could buy a billion of the "98" version of .... He drew on his wartime nursing experience for the poem "The...
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Walt Whitman Biography, Volunteer Nurse - Famous Nurse  Walt Whitman and his works were greatly influenced by nursing the soldiers during the war. ... He was with many soldiers as they drew their dying breaths. ... Two of his poems from that period are The Wound Dresser and Come up from the ... (Dover Books on Americana) , an insightful account of his wartime experiences.
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San Francisco Symphony - Adams, J.: The Wound-Dresser  Whitman drew on his experiences of endless hours spent with these sick and dying to ... In 1865 he published this and other poems as the collection Drum-Taps, ... as a nurse and caregiver in the hospitals that surrounded wartime Washington.
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Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath | National Archives  No American writer is more associated with writing about war in the early 20th ... World War, Ernest Hemingway volunteered to serve in Italy as an ambulance driver with the ... fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, an American Red Cross nurse. .... Much of the literature decrying World War I came from British poets, many of...
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War, Children, and Altruism in JD Salinger's Nine Stories - Akademeia  In A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut, For Esmewith Love and ... Salingers Nine Stories, though tainted by war, include a redemptive .... but is unique from other modern works in that the altruism found within these stories ..... moments before it happens - that he may go to his swimming lesson, and the...
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Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath | National Archives  During the First World War, Ernest Hemingway volunteered to serve in Italy as an ambulance driver with the .... His second novel, A Farewell to Arms, is written as a retrospective of the war experience of Frederic Henry, a wounded American soldier, and his doomed love affair with an English nurse, Catherine Barkley.
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Roald Dahl: The Story Of The 'Storyteller' : NPR  Sep 20, 2010 ... He had just written two volumes of memoirs, one of which he had given to me to read in draft. ... plane crash, then a career as a wartime diplomat in Washington. ... the diary of a Victorian priest, and a book of poetry by D. H. Lawrence. ..... I was also to learn that, as he rewrote his manuscripts, so too he...
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Dorothea Dix: Mental Health Reformer and Civil War Nurse ...  Mar 29, 2012 ... A profile of Dorothea Dix, a Civil War nurse and advocate for the mentally ill. ... made Superintendent of the United States Army Nurses on June 10. ... Though extremely busy during the war, Dix did stay in contact with her friends the Henrys. .... Social reform advocate, educator and nurse, she led the fight for...
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Wilmott Forums - The amazing Ken Jennings  Jul 10, 2004 ... POETS The Library of Congress' 2005 exhibit on him had a section titled "Wound Dresser in the Civil War" All 3 got "walt whitman" Final scores:
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Florence Nightingale - The National Archives  Britain was at war with Russia (the Crimean War 1854-1856) and the ... When Florence Nightingale got to the hospital, she saw that wounded men ... Wounded soldiers often arrived with diseases like typhus, cholera and ... When she arrived at the hospital, the army doctors who worked there did not want the nurses helping.
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Wilfred Owen - Greatest War Poet in the English Language  He wrote out of his intense personal experience as a soldier and wrote with unrivalled ... Within a few days he was experiencing gas attacks and was horrified by the ... No knowledge, imagination or training fully prepared Owen for the shock and .... "I came out in order to help these boys - directly by leading them as well as...
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Florence Nightingale | English nurse | Britannica.com  Nightingale was put in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers in Turkey during the ... Also known as ... care to the wounded established her image as the Lady with the Lamp. ... She was the first woman awarded the Order of Merit (1907). ... (William Edward's original surname was Shore; he changed his name to...
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Florence Nightingale - The National Archives  On 4 November 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived in Turkey with a group of 38 nurses ... Britain was at war with Russia (the Crimean War 1854-1856) and the ... When she arrived at the hospital, the army doctors who worked there did not want ... describes the work that Florence and her nurses did at the hospital at Scutari.
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Walt Whitman - Journalist, Poet - Biography.com  Dec 5, 2015 ... His most famous collection of poems, "Leaves of Grass," caused a stir ... Whitman later worked as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, writing the collection Drum Taps (1865) in connection to the ... soil" newspaper called the Brooklyn Freeman, which eventually became a daily despite initial challenges.
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Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia  Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organised the .... During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died there. Ten times more...
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Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats | Great Works of Literature II  Feb 17, 2015 ... ... fantasy when he says, O for a draught of vintage! [] With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple stained mouth; That I might drink,...
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THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE -- by Stephen Crane  As he walked along in careless line he was engaged with his own eternal debate. ...... He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage. The spectral soldier ...... gathered itself into a bunch to complete its trip. In this last length of...
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Civil War Nurses | HistoryNet  Civil War Nurses summary: Thousands of women served as volunteer nurses during ..... Jane and Georgy were assistant superintendents of the U.S. Army hospital at ... Like Hannah Ropes, the three Woolsey women used their prominent social .... translated their experience in Civil War hospitals into reforms in both nursing...
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Agnes von Kurowsky - Wikipedia  Agnes von Kurowsky Stanfield (January 5, 1892  September 25, 1984) was an American nurse who inspired the character "Catherine Barkley" in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Kurowsky served as a nurse in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan during World War I. One of ... Their story is shown in the 1996 film In Love and War.