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Social Life

The aftermath of the Civil War made a mark on writers during the era. The occurrences and reconstruction of America had changed some writing to shift from realism to depicting social life in literature. The view of many writers focused on the effects of the war like death, sadness, and people confronted with poverty. This is followed up with the Great Depression and World War I. People saw war first hand in bombings, killing, murders, and voracity. A group of writers chose this as their theme.
Edgar Lee Masters reflected the small town life with the poem, "Abel Melveny." The narrator (Abel) is telling a story about his machine collection. He is actually dead but looking back on how his life occurred. Masters wrote of this death, which Abel considered himself like a machine right before he dies. Abel was like a new machine (meaning when Abel was young) and now as a machine gets old, Abel got old and died. No one has any use for old rusted like machines,......

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