He is saying that he has moved through fields and trenches that have dead bodies, but he keeps walking by as if he doesn't see them.

showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.

I really like how Whitman uses parenthesis here to speak directly to the readers.

The trenches refer to where soldiers hid during battle. According to the US National Park Service, trenches were actually perfected during the civil war by both confederate and union militaries.

Also the repetition stands out to me as well now that I have gone back and re-read this poem. I also decided to do research on repetition in poetry. According to the Academy of American Poets, repetition was mainly used for oral poets. Repetition was mainly used for memorization, but it became so popular to the point where it became a poetry staple.

I highlighted nature because I feel as though there is a correlation between nature and almost every poem that I have ever read. Therefore, I chose to do some additional research on nature and its relationship to poetry. The Academy of American Poets describes nature as: "an oversimplified relationship between the human and the environment. “Nature” has been the site of so many different naïve symbolisms, such as purity, escape, and savagery. That’s why poets and critics often refer to green poetry or environmental poetry, which presupposes a complicated interconnection between nature and humankind." in terms of this poem, I think that nature is being used to "glorify" war and make it seem a lot better than what it actually is.

Those who have perished in battle.

For some reason this notion of "I dream, I dream, I dream" reminds me of Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. Both texts allude to a brighter future through dreaming. Whitman talks about concluding a war, whereas King talks about concluding segregation, both marvelous works.

Nature, fields, mountains, beauteous skies, etc. are all things that would not necessarily be associated with war. Therefore Whitman may be sayin that he dreams for these beautiful things after the war is over.

I have a feeling that Whitman is trying to describe soldiers having bad dreams. He uses the word anguish that allows for us to understand that the dreams that they are having may not be pleasant.

This stands out to me as an indicator that Prince Prospero is someone who is highly liked and admired by many of people.

The state or process of being in despair.

I find it interesting how Poe describes the house as being with "an utter depression of soul". It seems as though through this sentence, and throughout most of the first paragraph, he is comparing the property as being very lifeless.