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In "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," what mood was Whitman trying to create?

Happy/kind


Loving/thoughtful


Mysterious/eerie


Angry/hateful

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Answer:

Mysterious/eerie .

From the poem account "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," composed by Walt Witman, the illustrator explain in details the figures of the injured and soldiers at the point of death that he came across at an old church, which as been transformed to be a hospital at the end of the battle. He judiciously employed phrases in his poem, take for instance "a dim-lighted building" to make reference to the church and to view "Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps" within it. He significantly highlighted the continual view of blood, crying, shattered bodies, shadows and darkness he encountered, which formed an atmosphere of terror and conundrum.

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The mood he is trying to create is B) Mysterious/eerie

Step-by-step explanation:

In the poem written by Walt Witman, "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," he tries to give the readers as many details as possible in order to describe the pictire of the soldiers who are wounded and dying in a hospital after battle. He uses vocabulary and expressions "shadows of the deepest black..." that provide a misterious mood in the poem.

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