Read the poem "From American Liberty" by Philip Freneau and respond to the prompt that follows.And should we now when spread thro' ev'ry shore,Submit to that our fathers shunn'd before?Should we, just heaven, our blood and labour spent,Be slaves and minions to a parliament?Perish the thought, nor may one wretch remain,Who dares not fight and in our cause be slain;The cause of freedom daunts the hireling foe,And gives each Sampson's strength toward the blow,And each, like him whom fear nor force confines,Destroys a thousand modern Philistines.Who fights to take our liberty away,Dead-hearted fights and falls an easy prey;The cause, the cause, most cruel to enslave,Disheartens thousands, and unmans the brave:Who could have thought that Britons bore a heart,Or British troops to act so base a part?Britons of old renown'd, can they descendT' enslave their brethren in a foreign land?In a paragraph of 5-7 sentences, accomplish the following: identify the literary period in which this was written (Early Colonial and National, Romantic, Modern, Contemporary) identify the traits of the poem that reflect its literary period cite evidence from the poem to support your response
Read the poem "From American Liberty" by Philip Freneau and respond to the prompt that follows.
And should we now when spread thro' ev'ry shore,
Submit to that our fathers shunn'd before?
Should we, just heaven, our blood and labour spent,
Be slaves and minions to a parliament?
Perish the thought, nor may one wretch remain,
Who dares not fight and in our cause be slain;
The cause of freedom daunts the hireling foe,
And gives each Sampson's strength toward the blow,
And each, like him whom fear nor force confines,
Destroys a thousand modern Philistines.
Who fights to take our liberty away,
Dead-hearted fights and falls an easy prey;
The cause, the cause, most cruel to enslave,
Disheartens thousands, and unmans the brave:
Who could have thought that Britons bore a heart,
Or British troops to act so base a part?
Britons of old renown'd, can they descend
T' enslave their brethren in a foreign land?
In a paragraph of 5-7 sentences, accomplish the following:
- identify the literary period in which this was written (Early Colonial and National, Romantic, Modern, Contemporary)
- identify the traits of the poem that reflect its literary period
- cite evidence from the poem to support your response
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