Reading The Wound Dresser | Alexandria
Read The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman. Transforming wartime horror into radical empathy, Whitman's "The Wound Dresser" reveals a startling truth: intimacy with suffering creates deeper joy. Through graphic Civil War hospital scenes, he shows how facing death head-on paradoxically awakens us to life's beauty—a lesson eerily relevant as we navigate modern trauma and grief.