Romantic Period in American Literature The Romantic period in American literature was a very experimental time for writers. Many of the works that I read this unit explored humanity and our natural curiosities and nature. I also found that simple writings of normal life, and love, were popular during the romantic period.
Hawthorne and Poe explored life, death, and human nature in their works. They both had similar stories of human curiosity. With “The Pit and the Pendulum” Poe showed how a man’s curiosity can find the dark part of life, and how close death was to him. His curiosity opened his eyes to the multiple ways of death around him. Hawthorne uses the curiosity to show how man can make mistakes with one’s own human nature. All those
Hawthorne and Poe explored life, death, and human nature in their works. They both had similar stories of human curiosity. With “The Pit and the Pendulum” Poe showed how a man’s curiosity can find the dark part of life, and how close death was to him. His curiosity opened his eyes to the multiple ways of death around him. Hawthorne uses the curiosity to show how man can make mistakes with one’s own human nature. All those