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Some have mistakenly assumed that Whitman wrote no irony, but I see both
his poems "The Learned Astronomer" and "Beat!Beat!Drums" as dripping with
irony. The first, the arrogance of mortal man before the infinite
Creation, the latter, the picture of a trainload of dead soldiers forced to
stand over the river unable to enter town and the hearses because of the
celebrating crowd and war fever on Recruiting Day!
H H Hughes from United States