Professor Joseph
Engl 1302
04 September 2013
In the Article ‘’ Nation Made of Poetry” Joannie Fischer points out that the official documents now on the display in Washington, DC., offers one version of America’s story. This is an authorized biography of sorts, screened and sanctioned. Same as we have official documents marking our nation’s progress, there are many others that are unofficial that have steered events, whether by inciting, critiquing, warning, encouraging, cajoling, enraging, or inspiring. The words in this unofficial manifesto are so powerful that they still echo trough time, blending with other potent phrases from other outspoken souls to form a grand montage of ideas and urgings, odes, and rants, tall tales and truthful testimonies. This ‘’unauthorized ‘’ biography of our nation is scrawled in letters and diaries, in pamphlets and propaganda, in novels and essays. Fischer argued for the more powerful unofficial document by even by saying that with out some the following key scripts; key moments in U.S history might never even have taken place. In the Thomas Paine' common sense, writings of elegant and angry prose Fischer provided a strong evidence of how much this unofficial pamphlet is important for the existence of the USA. On the same publishing with the opening of the phrase ‘’these are the times that try men’s souls’’ it even brought very important history to the country, The Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. That is why John Adams said, ‘’without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in pain. In the novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the author also brought important evidence that how the writing and language on this manuscript flair the fire between the south and the north during the civil war. In turn the Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought out the abolitionist movement. By reading her writing there is was an out break,