Archibald MacLeish
Twentieth century nonfiction was mostly written about the changes America was going through. Archibald MacLeish, a well-known poet,laywright, and public official, wrote about the social and political issues of the time. He argued that the personality of the poet should be independent from the integrity of the poem's existence. His public service work and concern for the social problems through his writing, make him a true all-American. Archibald MacLeish was born in 1892 in glencoe, Illinois. He served in World War I before studying law and earning a degree at Harvard. He was determined to concentrate on his writing so he joined the colony of famous writers in Paris. He wrote verses that reflected the many artistic and social concerns of the day. He wrote the volumes The Happy Marriage, The Pot of Earth, Streets on the Moon, and The Hamlet of a MacLeish during that time also. When he returned to his Massachusetts farm in 1928 he became editor of Fortune. He still continued to write poems and dramatic v
repetition of key words and phrases in his essay. "Men imagined land beyond the sea"(pg. 599) and "they imagined a better, a more beautiful, a freer, happier world"(pg. 599) are examples in the first paragraph. "Because our forefathers were able to concieve a free man's government" and "were able to imagine a new thing' (pg.599) are examples of key points being repaeted. MacLeish is emphasizing that it took creativity to build our nation. another literary device he used was parallelism with two paragraphs to describe the confidence Americans should have. He bagan the first parallelism paragraph with "A while ago we should have said the American character was self-evident"(pg. 601). The second paragraph began "We should have said, a generation back, there was no possible doubt or questioin of the will and power of this nation"(pg. 601). MacLeish was trying to get Americans motivated about the future with this speech. He waned America to be the best it could be. was to make readers aware of the fact that America took alot of cre
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Approximate Word count = 696
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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