Era Of Romanticism: America's Identity

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America's identity has always revolved around the many arts. During the Era of Romanticism, we used, and still use, music, literature, and paintings to express our pride of our country. The music showed our happiness and joy to be an independent, free country. “Home, Sweet Home” was a song written by Payne and Bishop that regards to the fact that all Americans knew there was no place like home. ”'Mid pleasures and palaces though I may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek ghro' the world, is ne'er me with elsewhere.” (Bishop, 1823). The song painted America as a country of beauty and loveliness that was impossible to abandon. Another occurrence was America’s change

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