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We are in full bloom, fertilizing the American soil rich with nutrients of intellect and imagination. Shouting our 19th Century American voice far and wide for all to hear. Appealing to most, offensive to others, yet engrossing the minds of future generations to come. We see an era where literary greats are being sparked creatively as a result of their own personal struggles and simultaneously realizing this is a time of endless potential, a time of excitement for all the human possibilities and a time of transformation. The themes: love, beauty, escapism, nature, individuality and emotion are ever so abundant. They saturate the earth and all who inherit it with their forceful nature. Their makers are the storm and their works leave a residue not previously seen. Flourishing from this sudden outpour is Nathaniel Hawthorne's preoccupation with guilt, sin and secrets. Although a probable festering resentment towards his condemning ancestry, we also do see him turning away from himself and challenging his audience to look inside themselves to ask who they are. We see Edgar Allan Poe's infatuation with death. As if spawned from years of love lost in his own life, he is but deemed as one of America's most romantic writers. A
The similarity almost plagiarizing yet unique to it's own story. nd then we have Herman Melville, whose plight with individuality does not allow for others to dictate his future, thus permitting him to act on his own free will, in pursuit of that ultimate dream. we are the New America!Beauty and their love for it; ever so reminiscent as seen amongst Poe's "Ligeia" and Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" (from Children of Adam I Sing the Body Electric). He tries to remain humanistic it his flight against compassion and denial. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasant sadness. "That day will not rise till the fusion of races among us is more complete. With reverence be it spoken, the figure bore no slight similitude, both in garb and manner, to some grave divine of the New England churches" (Hawthorne. " This is the female form, a divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot.
Common topics in this essay:
Body Electric,
Goodman Brown,
Street Displayed,
Century American,
All-American Voice,
Massachusetts Virginia,
Poe Whitman,
Bay State-no,
Herman Melville,
Nathaniel Hawthorne's,
rise till,
american soil,
moral intellectual,
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