In both of walt whitman's and Sara teasdale's poem, there is a contrast that both of these poems describe the horrible outcome of the war in which it destroyed the condition of our natural world. The poem conveyed that the world that we live in was really beautiful and the war brought nothing but ugliness to it
The Abame oracle says that white men will come like locusts and that they will spread destruction. The meaning of this is that, just like locusts do, white men will bring no good to the village.