The writers of this time were using many ways to capture stories and poems by looking at imagination, nature, intuition, and also past writings. One of these writers William Cullen Bryant a poet looked at nature by watching the lifecycles of nature and compared them to humans. He compared them by looking at how nature and humans start life young and youthful but in the end die. This period was also influenced by the idea of individuality as many people were coming together from around the world to build a new way of life. Great writers such as Poe embraced the idea of how emotion and behavior could influence the readers to feel something more than just a story. …show more content…
This time was marked by people like Edgar Allan Poe and William Cullen Bryant. No other time in american literature has been marked with a great variety of writing styles, themes, and writers as the romantic