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Philip Freneau 'The Wild Honey Hachemer

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department of English), course: Literature: From Colony to Early Republic, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: This paper deals with Philip Freneau, the American Poet of the Revolution. Especially his works "The Wild Honey Suckle" and "To a New England Poet" are regarded. It's their structural and content analysis. Diese Seminararbeit beschäftigt sich mit Philip Freneau, dem amerikanischen Dichter der Revolution. Besonders seine beiden Werke "The Wild Honey Suckle" und "To a New England Poet" werden in dieser Arbeit untersucht. Sie werden einer gründlichen Strukur- und Inhaltsanalyse unterzogen. , abstract: Philip Morin Freneau was one America's most important writers. Especially in the Period of the American Revolution he became famous as a teacher, secretary, seaman, master of a merchant ship, clerk at a post office, as a satirist, journalist, poet, editor of "Freeman's Journal" and the "National Gazette" and as a translator for Thomas Jefferson. Two themes that influenced his writings were his interest in nature and the relationship between men and nature as well as the American Revolution. The question which this paper shall discuss is whether his two poems "The Wild Honey Suckle" and "To a New England Poet" are characteristic for his writings and whether they have anything in common. The interest in nature becomes obvious, regarding the first poem. The attitude towards the English and his countrymen is expressed in the second one. In this paper I will at first analyze the two poems. I will summarize their content, as well as take a look at their structural and formal peculiarities. Then I will pay attention to the imagery and the stylistic devices that are used to transmit a certain atmosphere. Moreover, I will outline how the flower in "The Wild Honey Suckle" is described. In a manner analogous to that