Lawrence Hill AMH 2010 11:20 a.m.
American literature has a drastically different style and dialect from all previous styles in history. Certain similarities can be drawn however, no groups contain the same blood, sweat and tears that our country has conveyed through words. Our country has fought for their lives every step of the way and only by our resolve did we succeed under such low odds. From our beginnings in Jamestown to our ruthless politics of slavery to the French and Indian War to our own Civil War. The American writer Ambrose Bierce is one of those writers who can show us the true America. Being a Civil War veteran turned socialite he became famous. But he spoke of death, war, lust, greed,honesty and hardship. He truly conveyed the real romanticism of America. Other writers who created the mystique of Romance in America, like Whitman and Emerson, do not tell of the struggle and sacrifice of America. Our country was not contemplating our feelings on nature or longing for old the hellenic philosophies to triumph in the world again. They were dying, fighting and doing anything to keep a family going. Ambrose Bierce, just a solider, recognized a true America. He saw the true culture beneath our romantics and greccophiles lilly prose. America should recognize the same determination, they should cherish our true romance.
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