A summary of "A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim"?

Question

1. Describe the scene you see in that poem, What feelings are inmediately evoked by the poem's setting?
2. What question does the speaker repeat in the poem?
3. What do you think the old man and the "sweet boy" symbolize to the speaker?
4. What does the speaker think the third face is? and what the speaker means when saying: "Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies."
5. The point of the poem is never openly stated; that is, it remains implicit. How would you make the poet's message explicit"

Answer 1

1. I see what the speaker sees:
Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying, Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket, Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
Feelings: fear, suffering is all around, stretchers scattered about.
2. Who are you ?
3. old man symbolize the extreme effects of this situation; boy conveys youthful innocence soon to be consumed by the circumstances
4. a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of
beautiful yellow. He assumes this is the face of the middle-aged people, face of saviors, Christ himself who should end this calamity and save the seniors and youth from danger.
Dead or divine means mortal or immortal
5. When dining at the devil's table, it's wise to use a long spoon.
This I assume is Walt Whitman's message.
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