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Poetry of the Civil War
"War is Kind" by Stephen Crane
Realism 1. Settings thoroughly familiar to the writer 2. Plots emphasizing the norm of daily experience 3. Ordinary characters, studied in depth 4. Complete authorial objectivity 5. Responsible morality; a world truly reported; VERISIMILITUDE
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