Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Published in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a searching, many-angled meditation on a nation fractured and remade. Through a sequence of poems, Melville moves from the shock of first clashes and public rallies to the long grind of campaigns, prisons, hospitals, and hard-won victories, pausing on moments that official histories often pass over - a sentry's solitude, a town's anxious waiting, the sudden hush after artillery, the uneasy distance between home-front certainty and battlefield fact. Rather than offering a single heroic narrative, Melville presents a chorus of perspectives: soldiers and civilians, North and South, the confident and the haunted. The collection presses at difficult questions about leadership, loss, justice, and the moral costs of reunion, while also capturing the strange beauty that can appear amid ruin. Part elegy and part reckoning, these battle-pieces ask what it means to remember, to forgive, and to rebuild when the war is over but its echoes are not.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:00:58) Chapter 02

(00:02:12) Chapter 03

(00:06:52) Chapter 04

(00:09:19) Chapter 05

(00:11:18) Chapter 06

(00:14:14) Chapter 07

(00:15:35) Chapter 08

(00:16:28) Chapter 09

(00:18:44) Chapter 10

(00:37:45) Chapter 11

(00:40:05) Chapter 12

(00:42:39) Chapter 13

(00:45:24) Chapter 14

(00:47:28) Chapter 15

(00:49:00) Chapter 16

(00:51:42) Chapter 17

(00:53:35) Chapter 18

(00:56:30) Chapter 19

(00:59:13) Chapter 20

(01:03:33) Chapter 21

(01:04:44) Chapter 22

(01:07:35) Chapter 23

(01:09:29) Chapter 24

(01:12:11) Chapter 25

(01:13:26) Chapter 26

(01:17:06) Chapter 27

(01:26:39) Chapter 28

(01:28:04) Chapter 29

(01:30:40) Chapter 30

(01:37:38) Chapter 31

(01:39:55) Chapter 32

(01:41:18) Chapter 33

(01:43:02) Chapter 34

(01:44:26) Chapter 35

(01:46:01) Chapter 36

(01:48:23) Chapter 37

(01:52:11) Chapter 38

(01:53:52) Chapter 39

(01:55:12) Chapter 40

(01:56:23) Chapter 41

(01:59:22) Chapter 42

(02:00:58) Chapter 43

(02:01:59) Chapter 44

(02:04:27) Chapter 45

(02:05:59) Chapter 46

(02:07:21) Chapter 47

(02:10:05) Chapter 48

(02:11:17) Chapter 49

(02:12:29) Chapter 50

(02:13:45) Chapter 51

(02:14:56) Chapter 52

(02:17:40) Chapter 53

(02:20:22) Chapter 54

(02:21:20) Chapter 55

(02:22:24) Chapter 56

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