Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind - A poem by Stephen Crane - American Poems

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind - A poem by Stephen Crane - American Poems This poem really shows how nothing is ever really beneficial to a soldier from the war. Also, the families back home have a lot of difficulties and trials to go through. He keeps on saying that you should weep, because war is kind, but nothing about the war is really kind. It is just teaching men to kill emotionlessly and its teaching everyone in the world that killing like that is okay. But slaughtering men so that a field is full of dead bodies is not what God put us on earth for. It is not okay to go around illing just because you dont get along with another country, and i think that is kind of what Stephen Crane was trying to say. He described these horrific images so that you could see them in your head, but then everyone around is saying that war is okay, its what is right. War is never the right thing. Killing is never the right thing. And having to go through that is never the right thing.