... through the title of the poem, and his attribution of John Brown as "The meteor of the war." John Brown was such a central topic in many works of literature during this time period because he represents to the abolitionist movement what the American Renaissance symbolized for these authors. The concepts of liberty, freedom, and the necessity of being able ... literally fighting for the lives of people who were enslaved, he coincided perfectly with the humanistic ideals of the renaissance. As the Renaissance also took many of its values from Romanticism, the ideas of changing traditions ...

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