If you are reading this letter I am dead or on my death bed. I wanted to prepare you for Language class in high school. I will be discussing the Romantic era and why it is so important in American Literature.
The first poet I with be talking about is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was the middle child out of three and in the first three years that he was born his parents have died. Poe was adopted and then they moved to London, where Poe attends school. Five years have passed and then he returned to Richmond, Virginia. In November 1824 when Poe was fifteen year old Poe wrote his first poem called Last night, with many cares and toils oppressed,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest.". Poe dropped out of college and then he decided to join the military. …show more content…
Washington Irving was a short story writer that wrote for fun and that writing didn't have to be serious. His most famous and one of my favorite short story is “Rip Van Winkle” Evan that the movie was really weird. In this story there is a guy named rip Van Winkle and he is a very bad farmer. His rent is due and he needs to go get some money for it. Sense he is a bad farmer and he needs money he wants to go out to the forest to hunt squirrels and sell them for money. He went to the forest when a man asked him if he could help him carry a keg. When they got to the scene the suspicious guy asked Rip if he would like a drink and Rip kindly accepted. The drink made him pass out. When he woke up one of the first things that Rip noticed was that the gun that he brought out to the forest is all rusted. When rip saw his gun he thought that the suspicious made had traded it with a bad one. When Rip returned to the town he noticed that there was a picture of a man in the town and he didn't know who it was. He asked around if the people saw Dame Van Winkle, Rip’s wife. They did not see her and Rip was ecstatic. He also asked about some other people if they knew some of his friends were still alive. The only friend that was still alive was Peter
The first poet I with be talking about is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was the middle child out of three and in the first three years that he was born his parents have died. Poe was adopted and then they moved to London, where Poe attends school. Five years have passed and then he returned to Richmond, Virginia. In November 1824 when Poe was fifteen year old Poe wrote his first poem called Last night, with many cares and toils oppressed,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest.". Poe dropped out of college and then he decided to join the military. …show more content…
Washington Irving was a short story writer that wrote for fun and that writing didn't have to be serious. His most famous and one of my favorite short story is “Rip Van Winkle” Evan that the movie was really weird. In this story there is a guy named rip Van Winkle and he is a very bad farmer. His rent is due and he needs to go get some money for it. Sense he is a bad farmer and he needs money he wants to go out to the forest to hunt squirrels and sell them for money. He went to the forest when a man asked him if he could help him carry a keg. When they got to the scene the suspicious guy asked Rip if he would like a drink and Rip kindly accepted. The drink made him pass out. When he woke up one of the first things that Rip noticed was that the gun that he brought out to the forest is all rusted. When rip saw his gun he thought that the suspicious made had traded it with a bad one. When Rip returned to the town he noticed that there was a picture of a man in the town and he didn't know who it was. He asked around if the people saw Dame Van Winkle, Rip’s wife. They did not see her and Rip was ecstatic. He also asked about some other people if they knew some of his friends were still alive. The only friend that was still alive was Peter