Choose one short story and one poem from the 19th century.

write to compare the ways in which each of these may be considered representative of american culture during the time period in which it was written. cite specific evidence from the literature to support your ideas.

 All you have to do is choose a poem or a short story and a historical document to read. Then you simply have to analyse both of them and compare them to each other. I would recommend you to choose both of this to talk about the same this. Just look for som that were from around the same time.