Sarah Funke's American Literature Blog

While I began on the journey of reading Walt Whitman, I became fascinated and confused by his writing style. “Song of Myself” seemed to ...

Frederick Douglass' speech, "Men to Color, To Arms" is an influential speech which in my opinion can be compared to the “Getty...

I took a particular interest this week in the components of slave narratives.  As stated in class, slave narratives have similar el...

         For this week's blog, I have chosen to analyze "Our City Charities" by Margaret Fuller, simply because I admire her p...

      Satire is defined in the dictionary as, “a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which humanfolly and vice are held up to sco...

This week, I took a particular interest in Samson Occom’s narrative. There is an overall theme in this narrative of struggle in the Native ...

Throughout American literature, poetry has been used as a creative outlet to express historic movements, change, friendship, grief, and amon...