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The American Soldier

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Philip Freneau’s magnificent poem, “The American Soldier” is a testament to one of the key economic and social issue at hand during the poet’s prominent literary career, the failure to properly reward or compensate to the brave American Patriots that served in the Continental Army. Freneau depicts the model of a veteran, all wilted and worn out, with scar markings all over his body. The veteran reminisces of his glorious yet arduous career at arms, especially the grand victory on the plains of Saratoga. The retiree is “too poor to shine in courts and too proud to beg,” and only has one option remaining: powerless, as he stares as the profiteers of the war live on wealth as his loved ones slowly leave him, for he is an antique figure, only “famine
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