When I Was One-and-Twenty by A.E. Houseman

When I was one-and-twenty

       I heard a wise man say,

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas

       But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies

       But keep your fancy free.”

But I was one-and-twenty,

       No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty

       I heard him say again,

“The heart out of the bosom

       Was never given in vain;

’Tis paid with sighs a plenty

       And sold for endless rue.”

And I am two-and-twenty,

       And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

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James Fenimore Cooper: James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. 屬於大荒型，作品主角叫鷹眼之類的，電影: The Last of the Mohicans大地英豪

各時代代表:

各個時代與相關人物:

Colonial Literature: propaganda, Anne Bradstreet

The Revolutionary period: Thomas Paine’ s Common Sense and Rights of man 影響法國大革命

Romanticism: humanism, individuality, emotionality

The Declaration of Independence: The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

電影:

中國合夥人:新夢想影射新東方，海闊天空這首歌能引起大家共鳴

玻璃之城:當年那群香港人的夢

American Dream: The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.

Manifest destiny: In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny which includes the special virtues of the American people and their institutions, America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America, an irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty.