Taking a closer look at America
"Let America be the dream dreamers dreamed- Let it be that great strong land of love where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme that any man be crushed by one above." Let yourself wonder and think back to your first ancestor to cross the gigantic, chilling seas risking all, to start over in America. This is what they would be desperately wanting and repeatedly saying to themselves. This captured sence of reality is what drew me to write about this poem. The desperate and anxious emotions that appear throughout its stanza gives the poem its ancient background of how America was found. From people searching for a free and fair world to them just looking for a little peace and chance. The chance to start a wealthy and prosperous life with the fortune and opportunity they all have come to hear about. 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
Through four irregular stanzas the refrains stop to allow you to grasp their sence of hope and courage, and not to include his solitude. In this line, the author shows his real strength and determination. It shows what he asks and writes about is not difficult to understand or complicated in any way, but so easy to correct. e asks, "let America be America again", pleading for the America he had once dreamed of. He ends the poem the same way the declaration of Independence reads, "we the people," signifying unity and asking us to redeem our beautiful land, and make America again! 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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