Seeger felt it was his duty to take a side feeling a grateful kinship to his adopted country, he joined the French Foreign Legion. Before he was able to find a publisher, however, war broke out. There, Seeger felt he had finally found himself, producing a prolific body of poetry. After graduation, however, he felt adrift his poems found no audience and Seeger himself felt they were lacking in depth. Returning to the States, he eventually attended Harvard University, there solidifying his determination to become a poet. In fact, one of those sent the family to Mexico, where Seeger enjoyed some of his happiest memories and developed his dreamy romanticism, an unusual combination for someone with Seeger’s penchant for action and excitement. Alan Seeger was born in to a well-off, literate, and cultured family and had a happy childhood, despite some family financial setbacks.
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