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An original poem written for the inaugural reading of Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the Library of Congress. There’s a poem in this place— in the footfalls in the halls in the quiet beat of the seats. It is here, at the curtain of day, where America writes a lyric you must whisper to say.
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The poet takes the reader around the country, stopping in various cities to engage with recent tragediesand allude to the deeds of brave men and women. She celebrates the diversity of the nation, asserts that this diversity is what America is about, and states clearly that the country is not finished yet. It might have a long way to go, but that’s ...
Gorman engages with numerous quite important themes in this poem. They include America as a country and as an idea, suffering and fear, as well as hope and strength. The last two are the best parts of the country, traits that come out when the country is facing its worst moments, such as in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and the heroic acts of people...
‘In This Place (An American Lyric)’ by Amanda Gorman is a ninety-eight-line poem that is contained within a single stanza of text. The poet did not choose to arrange the lines with any specific rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. Instead, the lines make use of rhyme at times and at other times are devoid of it. For example, in lines sixty-seven throu...
Gorman makes use of several literary devices in‘In This Place (An American Lyric).’ These include but are not limited to alliteration, enjambment, and allusion. The latter is one of the most important literary devices at work in the piece, as it is in other poems that she’s completed. There are numerous examples of allusions in this poem, ones that...
Lines 1-20
In the first lines of ‘In This Place (An American Lyric),’ the speaker begins by alluding to the importance of “this place,” the Library of Congress, in which the poet is reading her work. It’s in the next lines that the poet spends some time describing the feeling of the building. It has its own history, one that fills the halls and inspires her to write the words she’s now reading. The building is described using personification. It is “noble” and has a “lined face.” This alludes to the app...
Lines 21-43
The poet continues to travel around the country, touching down in Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Florida. She ended up in East Texas briefly before going to Los Angeles, where she lived during her youth. She includes some of her personal histories at this point by speaking about a single mother, her own, who taught in “a windowless classroom.” In all of these places, she says, there is a “lyric,” “a song,” or a poem. When speaking about East Texas, she alludes to hurricane damage of r...
Lines 44-66
She speaks more broadly about California in the next lines, where students march “undocumented and unafraid.” There, the poet’s friend Rosa, a Dreamer, stands strong in the face of retribution by the Trump administration. Her life in the United States, as well as the lives of many others, like Jesus Conteras, was under threat as President Trump tried to repeal DACA. The poet zooms back in the next lines, speaking about her poem, this country, and how it belongs to people like Jesus and Rosa....
Readers who enjoyed ‘In This Place (An American Lyric)’ should also consider reading Amanda Gorman’s poetry: 1. ‘The Hill We Climb’ — written with hope for the futurein mind and read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021. Some other related poems are: 1. ‘America’ by Allen Ginsberg— depicts the poet’s own disappointment with the social and ...
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1. ‘ In This Place (An American Lyric) ’. Gorman wrote this poem for the inaugural reading of the US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the Library of Congress. Although the ‘place’ mentioned in the poem’s title starts out as the Library of Congress, it quickly becomes America, and numerous places within the US.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘In This Place (An American Lyric)’ is a poem by the contemporary American poet Amanda Gorman (born 1998). The poem is an example of what is known as an occasional poem, or a poem written for a specific occasion: Gorman wrote it for the inaugural reading of the US….
By Amanda Gorman. Amanda Gorman Performs 'An American Lyric' at the Library of Congress. Watch on. -- An original poem written for the inaugural reading of Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the Library of Congress. There’s a poem in this place— in the footfalls in the halls. in the quiet beat of the seats. It is here, at the curtain of day,
In This Place (An American Lyric) by Amanda Gorman. An original poem written for the inaugural reading of Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the Library of Congress. There’s a poem in this place— in the footfalls in the halls in the quiet beat of the seats.
“In This Place (An American Lyric)” is a 2017 lyric poem by American poet and human rights activist Amanda Gorman. She wrote and presented the poem at the Library of Congress to commemorate the inauguration of Tracy K. Smith as the poet laureate of the United States.