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Jan 21, 2021 · the hill we climb. If only we dare. It's because being American is more than a pride we inherit, it's the past we step into. and how we repair it. We've seen a force that would shatter our nation ...
Jan 20, 2021 · The nation's first Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recites "The Hill We Climb."FULL COVERAGE: https://abcn.ws/361BpUeSUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit.ly/...
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Jan 21, 2021 · Arts Updated on Jan 21, 2021 2:34 PM EDT — Published on Jan 20, 2021 12:36 PM EDT. Amanda Gorman opened her inauguration poem, “The Hill We Climb,” with a question. Addressing newly sworn in ...
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Jan 20, 2021 · Understanding the Tradition of “The Hill We Climb” Video Richard Blanco, the 2013 inaugural poet, read “One Today” after President Obama renewed his oath of office on Monday.
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The Hill We Climb. by Amanda Gorman. When day comes we ask ourselves, ‘where can we find light in this never-ending shade,’ the loss we carry, a sea we must wade? We’ve braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, the norms and notions of what just is isn’t always just-ice. And yet the dawn is ours ...
‘The Hill We Climb’ is an occasional poem: that is, literally, a poem written for a specific occasion, in this case the Presidential inauguration. And Gorman’s poem fits into this long and august tradition of inauguration poems, which began with Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961.
Amanda Gorman wrote and performed "The Hill We Climb" to celebrate the 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States. The poem celebrates the U.S. not as a "perfect union," but as a country that has the grit to struggle with its all-too-real problems. Progress, the poem argues, doesn't happen all at once: it's a slow and ...
