Social Topics In American Literature
Throughout American literature writers have always written on social topics. Writers wrote about what was around them, and this was anything from war to love. Pieces of literature that confront social topics include Walt Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!", Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". From the Civil War through the Modern Age the changing views of social topics is evident through literature. With the brake out of the Civil War came views of society's sorrow for lost boys dying in farmers' fields. Many American's believed the war would end quickly, with one decisive battle perhaps. Instead Americans had to struggle through four long years of death and destruction. In "Beat! Beat! Drums!", by Walt Whitman, the bugles give society shrills. In this piece Whitman writes, "Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, plowing his field or gathering his grain, So fierce you whirr and pound you drums-so shrill you bugles blow." This passage tells of a farmer having no peace now that the war is happening on his fields. Some writers however tried to keep their literature free of war, and they wrote about the westward movement. The civil war authors told of the
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Approximate Word count = 885
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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