War Is Kind

War is Kind by Stephen Crane

Significance of the color yellow

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In the third stanza, we are presented with a close-up and graphic image of the dying soldier, as he tumbles "in the yellow trenches." The color yellow can represent a number of things..... sunlight, sickness and disease, or even cowardice.

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War is Kind