Throughout American literature writers have always written on social topics. Writers wrote about what was around them, and this was anything from war to love. Pieces of literature that confront social topics include Walt Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!", Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". From the Civil War through the Modern Age the changing views of social topics is evident through literature. With the brake out of the …showed first 75 words of 837 total…

…showed last 75 words of 837 total…affects on society. Westward movement writers began to express their opinions of society more. The realists and naturalists concerned themselves more with the truth about human reality. The modern poets combined many views of writing and often used symbolism to express their views of society. No matter what form of literature each group had their own distinct way of expressing their views of social topics. Literature is a mass of intellectual views organized into narratives.