Beat! Beat! Drums! Quotes | Shmoop
Beat! Beat! Drums! Quotes. By Walt Whitman. Warfare. Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows—through the doors—burst like a force of armed men, (1-2) These drums and bugles are military instruments and our speaker makes their connection to the war pretty clear by comparing their sound to "armed men." Mr. Whitman wanted ...