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The Foundations period is one of the five periods in American literature. Foundationalism relates to related theories of knowledge upon justified beliefs; myths, legends, tales, and lyrics of Native Americans. Many of the characters in the foundation period books may include animals or plants associated with a tribe, group, or individuals.

Jonathan Edwards, Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God (1741) is a sermon that uses metaphors to argue the point that people who have not accepted Christ as a savior will live on the brink of damnation and the torments of hell. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, The Declaration of Independence (1776), all of these men are created equal and have all the same rights, and if these rights are violated the people have the right to overthrow the rules and government. The Nez Perce, Coyote Finishes His Work (No Date) the coyote is wise but fallible, self centered but generous, it may not seem like it but the coyote cares about the living around him. An author names Marcel Proust wrote In Search of Lost Time during the foundation era in (1913) and as well as William Byrd The History of the Dividing line (1728). The Foundation era produced a new civilization that soon began to grow, because of this the world is now changing.

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Romanticism also known as the ‘Romantic period’ was an artistic, literary of American literature, and intellectual movement. Romanticism is characterized by it emphasis on emotion.

Poets in the romantic period are divided into two generations. William Blake is the first generation he wrote the poem “The Little Black Boy” (1789), this poem consist of anti-slavery and uses metaphors of God’s love, he’s an African American but feels “white” inside. William Blake also wrote “The Lamb” (1789), this poem consist of the talk about Christianity. The lamb is a metaphor of Jesus Christ, who is called “The Lamb Of God.” Emotion is a big part of the romantic period in all of the writers stories, poems, and short stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses emotions in his short story The Ministers Black Veil (1832) by using emotion and mystery and The Scarlet’s letter (1850). American romanticism often values the imagination over reality, an example of that would be Herman Melville Moby Dick (1851), and Edgar Allan Poe The Raven (1845). Romanticism played a very important role in American literary it shaped the view of art, literature, and music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Lamb (poem)

https://www.skyminds.net/the-19th-century-romanticism-in-art-and-literature/

Realism is a movement in art in literature. Writers used realism as a technique to describe story elements, like settings, characters, theme, and many more things. Through realism, writers explains things without sugar coating. Realism occurred between 1880-1914. The main cause of why realism started is because of the Civil war and the action of science. Realism soon came to an end because of the action of the World War One.

As realism was starting to expand, industrial business were starting to do the same. Because of the expansion of the industrial businesses that meant more people needed to work in the factories, so the growth of people grew too. As the workers started to work in the factories and get comfortable, the workers started to get treated badly, and the workers started to realize. Realism authors and poets soon began to write about these things, they started to betray reality as it is and started to rely on facts and reason. The main focus of the authors was to write about immigrants, lower class people, and slaves to show people what was really going on in reality and the past.

Some authors during this time are Mark Twain who wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1885). He shows realism through the representation of the “real” world, he enables the writers to explore the characters relationship. He also wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) this story is written through a hypocritical portrayal through institution of religion, Twain aimed towards realism in describing Huck’s life. A poet named Alexander Pope The Rape Of The Lock (1712) he presents a daily routine of men and women in an amusing way. A poet during the realism time is Jim Baker as he pursued to write Blue Jay Yarn (1880). He presents a Blue jay, which was unusual during that time, he showed determination and language in this poem. Sherwood Anderson Death In the Woods (1933). Realism played a very big role in american literature.

https://literarydevices.net/realism/

The Modernism Period is one of the five American Literature periods. Modernism Started in 1914 through 1945, World War One started the Modernism period and World War 2 ends the period. During the times of the War people were starting to experience shell shock which involved shock or confusion because of the sudden alarming experiences of the wars. Modernism was happening during the times of the Roaring twenties, during that time women were becoming new women. Revealing new clothes and voting for women were being allowed and a new generation of art and music all came about too.

Modernism authors and poets were just like the Realist they both wanted to expose reality but the difference was after the modernist knew about everything they wanted change to happen, they wanted people to take action. Modernism and realism are kind of similar they both depended on science for thoughts and reason. Mental illnesses and the talk about sexuality also started to come about, so people started to question God.

Zora Hurston was a modernism author she wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in this story modernism changes spiritually and socially the theme was to always put your faith in God always and to follow your heart through anything because love and faith can take care of all the bad things in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby (1925), and The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (1963). We are now introducing poets in the modernism period like Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” (1916), Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of River,” and Katherine Mansfield “The Garden Party” (1922). Modernism was a important part of American literature because it changed the writing style in both novels and poetry,

The Contemporary Period started in 1945 and continued onward, it was the ‘Pride and Freedom’ time. The wars that happened during this time were the Vietnam, Cold War, Korean War, and the Persian Gulf war. Everybody thought war was a madness during this time, an Anti-War was also happening it was a two part event. During this time authors, poets, and just regular people were being brutally honest about what was happening about the reality of this time, things were happening like exposing things of reality that have not even been thought of or even considered like ‘LGBT’. No one was dissuaded on what they felt, anyone could write about there feelings and what they wanted people to know about the truth of the world.

Women were now standing on equal grounds with men, voices of color and different cultures are now being accepted too. Some examples of voices of color are Alice walker The Color Purple (1982), Kathryn Stockett The Help (2009), further examples included feminism writers like Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar (1963). Poets like “Dr. Suess” who wrote many poems for children but also adults, Stephen King Skeleton Crew (1985). As authors and poets are being introduced at this they are not holding back on there writing styles. The Contemporary period included a wide range of writing styles by people of different backgrounds in America.