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. ... Edgar Allen Poe took us from common to sense to common horror. ... (The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe) As a short-story writer, Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. ... Poe's most enduring tales are those of horror, the horror coming from the working of an irrational or crimi...

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Edgar Allen Poe, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, and Robert Frost are all creative masterminds. Can anyone really expect high school students to write as well as these influential artists? That answer varies on the individual in question; however, it is most certain th...

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Bierce describes this scene with clear focus on details "A sentinel at the each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support", that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest – a formal and unnatural position, enforcing an erect carriage of the body. [1]" Bierce's use of specific details presented in the story and the diction used is important to the style of realism as compared to Edgar Allan Poe's poems of romanticism. In Edgar Allan Poe's "Ann...

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Charles Brockden Brown He was born in Philadelphia, on January 17, 1771, into an old Quaker family. Brown was the youngest of four sons. Through out his childhood and his life he was most often sick. Being physically weak Brown was very strong in his studies. He went to Friends" Grammar School. Th...

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When it comes to writing, personal narratives are my strength. It is easy for me to put my personal experiences on paper. This is because when someone is writing what they know about,there are not any right or wrong answers. I am the kind of person who lays back and observes all the emotions in ...

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