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Within the first stanza, the author imagines back to a time when he had dreamt of a land so beautiful and caring in which he could start over and is free to live his life as he wishes. The author though, has already realized his false hope since reaching the place in his dreams, America. It has turned out to be nothing like he had anticipated or hoped for. H
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Looking past the text in the poem and glimpsing on its structure, there are a lot unpredictable and erratic patterns. He wrote these lines very plainly and even announces just that. This was purposely done to set a mood and to let the readers full attention reflect on his plead.
His identity again changes in the seventh stanza when he portrays the men still serfs to the kings in the old world. As long as people realize and trust in this, there will always be hope. He continues on that the equality and freedom were still just that illusion that he once imagined. He next describes the difference between England and America (above) where kings can not govern you as they wish and people of a higher social status cannot push you around. "For it is an ever-living seed which lies deep in the heart of me," he writes. He adds that we must take back America from those who leech off others and only succeed from others misfortune. Even if he doesn't live to see America become what he wishes, he knows it has already existed, inside of him. He now would like you to forget about what he has talked about before, and now put yourself in the lives of these men who worked so hard for America.
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