My first impression of the poem "War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was that this young man had experienced the ferocity of war in all of its intensity. Published in the year of 1899 at the same time when America was rejoicing with the conclusion of its victorious foreign involvement, The Spanish-American War. This war, depicted by the newspapers as a glorious adventure, was countermanded by Crane's poetry. In 1895 his publication of the book "The Red Badge of Courage", an impressionistic story of a young soldier trying to find out wh ....