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This paper examines the lives and writing styles of two of America's formost writers, Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although these two were different on the surface, and especially, a generation apart, both wrote about their love for America in language that everyman could understand and respond to.
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helped define the American spirit of independence that was gained through the Revolutionary War. Emerson, who was born on American soil, used vivid metaphors and grandiose verbiage through poetry and
literature to help propel the new young country and its citizens toward even greater heights. However, despite their differences in communication and even in age, and despite the different societies
in which both men were raised and lived, their writings were very much alike, as were the paths of their lives (both, in fact, had married twice, with their first
wives having died). Their writings and philosophies were so similar in fact, that Emerson frequently said that he was influenced by Paines
vision of freedom and rationality. And while he, himself, was influenced by Paine, according to The Heath Anthology of America Literature, Emersons words influenced a new generation of writers including
Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman (Lauter). Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was born in a small village in England, and, from birth, it
was expected that he would follow in his fathers footsteps and become a staymaker (Harris). While Paine did train at his fathers knee and eventually go into business for himself,
he was unhappy with the idea of being a businessman. Paine, with the soul of a revolutionary, left his small English village and ended up in London, where he attended
meetings of radical underground political movements, which, no doubt, influenced his writings toward freedom; as well as get him into and out of hot water in England (Harris). After meeting
Benjamin Franklin during one of that mans frequent trips to London, Paine decided to immigrate to America, and arrived in Philadelphia in 1774 (Harris). From that time, through the Revolutionary
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