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" On the Pulse of Morning " is a poem by writer and poet Maya Angelou that she read at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993. With her public recitation, Angelou became the second poet in history to read a poem at a presidential inauguration, and the first African American and woman.
- Maya Angelou
- 1993
1928 –. 2014. A Rock, A River, A Tree. Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens. Of their sojourn here. On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom. Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my.
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American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou wrote and performed "On the Pulse of Morning" for the presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton in January of 1993. The poem echoes key points in Clinton's inaugural speech, especially that of America's need to own up to its violent history of genocide, slavery, colonialism, and environmental ...
By Maya Angelou. A Rock, A River, A Tree. Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens. Of their sojourn here. On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom. Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my.
In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton, becoming the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
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- Memoir, poetry
- 1951–2014
- Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
‘On the Pulse of Morning’ by Maya Angelou is a poem dealing with the voices of the rock, river, and tree and how humans can make this earth a better place for everyone. This poem begins with a short depiction of the lost era when ancient creatures existed. However, with time, they lost.
Angelou recited her most famous poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. In 1995, she delivered what Richard Long called her "second 'public' poem", entitled "A Brave and Startling Truth", which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
