Many people saw the triumph of American independence as a divine sign that America and her people were destined for greatness. Greatness came with a strong nation and thousands of poems and stories that shaped our nation. The revolution greatly expressed the heart of the American people; however, it would take another fifty years of development throughout America before it produced the first great generation of American writers such as, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Paine and Edgar Allen Poe, just to name a few. ... "To my dear and loving husband") Bradstreet was a feminist ahead of her time, lim...

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Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic literature figures preceding them and took on entirely new perspective in their writing. ... A main theme in "The Open Boat" is the idea of that constant fear that is lingering in human nature regarding the unpredictable nature of death. ... Modern writers not only removed the criticized the narrow- minded view points society associates with any fictional novel by modifying the content in their writing, but new innovations and creativity the writing included transformed the act of reading an...

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