Is the American Dream dead?
The American Dream: Anyone can achieve greatness--own your own house with a white picket fence, be a "self-made man," achieve not only financial "success" but affluence, if you're ambitious; not be beholden to others--independent
John Steinbeck
Realist--more pessimistic
Lawrence Ferlinghetti--"I Am Waiting"
John Keats--"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Robert Browning--"Childe Roland to a Dark Tower"
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