Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email. Amanda Gorman reads her poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol. Because you know greatness when you hear it, and you know you're part of history when you experience it. Why? Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Profound wisdom. Amanda Gorman recently came into the public spotlight as the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, reading her poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January of 2021. The Problem With Amanda Gorman’s Poem at the Joe Biden Inauguration Posted by The Jones on January 21, 2021 January 22, 2021 This post is a slight rant against Amanda Gormon’s poem, “The Hill We Climb.” (There's SHADE again, tying it all together. For many, Amanda Gorman was the highlight of yesterday’s United States Presidential Inauguration – and not just because of her bright yellow jacket. For more information, see our Cookie Policy. Gorman is hopeful: she states that the United States is not broken, but merely ‘unfinished’: it’s a work in progress, which can be improved. The poem is hopeful while being realistic about the struggles the United States faces – together – during a period of political and medical … ), 7. The first thing to say is that any Elizabethan Rhetorician who saw or heard Amanda Gorman’s poem would immediately, and with a broad smile and nod of recognition, recognize it as a species of Euphuism. And pays homage to Lin Manuel Miranda's brilliant rap musical Hamilton - which she recited - in particular "I Am Aaron Burr, Sir!" By Alexandra Whittaker Meanwhile, at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, the African-American poet Maya Angelou recited a poem titled ‘On the Pulse of Morning’, which, like Gorman’s, uses the metaphor of the dawn to suggest a brighter day and new beginning for Americans. In this opening stanza, Gorman draws on the idea of the ‘day’ and ‘dawn’, suggesting a new start: a fitting motif for the inauguration of a new President. ), 15. Washington often used this phrase, especially in his letters: at one count, he used it some 50 times. We've learned that quiet isn't always peace, We the successors of a country and a time, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother, We are striving to forge a union with purpose, To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and, And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us. I was standing in my back yard under the live oak trees, crying, as I watched Amanda Gorman deliver her profound spoken art. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man. In her stirring poem, "The Hill We Climb", Gorman called for a better America as she referenced the January 6 riots at Capitol Hill. And the norms and notions of what just is, Isn’t always just-ice. how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? The inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th president of the United States was a splendid event, despite the confinement of the pandemic. We've braved the belly of the beast. To be proverbially ‘in the belly of the beast’ means to be at the heart of a dangerous situation, the epicentre of danger. Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious, Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division, that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree. She returns to the image of the ‘shade’ from the opening of the poem, and talks of Americans stepping out from the shade and into the light of day. She differentiates between unrealistic aspiration (forming a country that is ‘perfect’: an unattainable goal) and purposeful improvement (playing nicely upon the similar sounds, and the alliteration, of ‘perfect’ and ‘purpose’: a purposeful swerving away from perfection, we might say). A common misconception with the 19th Amendment to the … → ), 39. An Analysis of Why Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem is an Instant Classic Published on January 20, 2021 January 20, 2021 • 154 Likes • 69 Comments (Puts herself in the story and gives relevant historical perspective ... with a twist at the end that comes with a smile. We close the divide because we know, to put our future first. 37. our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, battered and beautiful (She Elmore Leonard's this - "I leave out the parts people skip." Amanda Gorman stepped on stage outside of the Capitol to perform her original poem, "The Hill We Climb," becoming the youngest inaugural poet in history.
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