Thomas Paine
... the American Revolution has many poems supporting it. Many authors such as thomas Paine, Philip Freneau...have strongly supported and urged the people to carry on with the war, take the example of the French revolution, it has numerous poems and books about it! Many forms of literature have encircled the past revolutions and wars, but how about the wars fought today? How about the Recent Iraq war? Not many of them have come to light, so how about comparing it to the literature of the past wars? Very little? Another question needed to be tackled is the acceptance of literature. Fortunately, in this modern society, much criticism is fairly accepted, but in the times of the old, let say China, it was banned, emperors burned books and did not give a thought about how the people wou...