ENGL 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Epic, Nigger, Southern Hospitality
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The bearded founders of american literature: comparing and contrasting mark twain and. Walt whitman and mark twain were, physically, from two different worlds worlds that consisted of a 20-year age gap. However, literature placed the two unlikely men into a similar world of writing, where the pair became some of america"s most influential writers of all time. Both whitman and twain"s works revolved around the common theme of. Although, from two different generations, each writer conveys his own idea of. America; walt whitman"s experience in america after the instability following the civil war and twain"s thoughts on racial prejudice in the southern region of america. Each author uses his own signature style to perfectly express his views of america. Walt whitman, born to a quaker family in 1819, wrote long, epic-like poems about the turmoil america faced after the end of the civil war and the assentation of president.
