Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney was one of the two Fireside poet that’s in our notes and is the creator of the poems “Indian Names”, “slavery”, and “Our Aborigines”. The first fireside characteristic is frequently nostalgic, melancholy, and/or wistful in tone. This is like a sad, bittersweet, and yearning type of writing with a down emotion type deal. When Sigourney says, “Ye they passed away, /That noble Race and brave, /That their light canoes have vanished” (109). This is a sad nostalgic part of her writing. The next fireside characteristic sometimes has a tone of righteous indignation at “wrongs”—but presented in accepted forms and often with sentimental language to soften the point. This is talking about writing that are mad at wrong doings,
