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On a stormy December night in 1776 General George Washington and his men braved the cold and crossed the Delaware River to attack unsuspecting British soldiers. This bold move helped to turn the tides of the American Revolution and proved to be one of the most important American victories of the war. This historical battle was commemorated through a painting by German artist, Emmanuel Leutze. The painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River properly represents the fighting spirit and resiliency of the colonial forces during the American Revolution.

The poem “Let America Be America Again” (658) is written by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes who is knowledgeable in American literature. Hughes writes this specific piece about the suffrages of what African Americans have encountered and uses a combination of ethos, pathos, and logos to express his thoughts. In the book Arguing About Literature: A Brief Guide by John Schilb and John Clifford gives a brief credibility description of Hughes to let readers knows he knows what he is talking about. He also uses history and emotion, both powerful strategies, to create a connection through his writing. Although he views majority of victims of poverty as African Americans, Hughes mentions others for those outside of the African American race can relate to this poem. In history and today’s society, people of all discrimination suffer powerlessness with lack of opportunity, equality, freedom, and fairness for immigration.

On a stormy December night in 1776 general George Washington and his men braved the cold and crossed the Delaware River to attack unsuspecting British soldiers. This bold move helped to turn the tides of the American Revolution and proved to be one of the most important American victories of the war. This historical battle was commemorated through a painting by German artist, Emmanuel Leutze. The painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River properly represents the fighting spirit and resiliency of the colonial forces during the American Revolution.

The title itself alludes to “The Unknown Soldier,” almost parodying it. According to Georgia Virtual School, an unknown soldier died in battle, however, the body is unrecognizable. It is also known that soldiers are tagged. The fact that the title is the way it is and the subtitle mimics a tag implies that the lives of common folk is so insignificant and uneventful that they might just as well be unknown since they are just another face in the vast crowd of people. This relays a metaphor in the eyes of the reader.

Ladies of the Confederacy are often linked to the term “southern belle.” This label traditionally evokes images of beautiful, spoiled young ladies whose primary concerns were that of attending balls and capturing the attention of men. Attended to by numerous slaves, the stereotypical southern belle “had few tasks other than to be obedient, to ride, to sew, and perhaps to learn reading and writing.”1 By definition, a southern belle is a beautiful upper-class lady from the south.2 The southern belle stereotype is exemplified in many literary portrayals of upper-class southern women of the 19th century, such as that of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind.”

In “Let America Be America Again,” Langston Hughes addresses the reality of inequality and discriminative behaviors of the American people in the pre-Civil War era. Many Americans during this time felt the American Dream was just an illusion because they can never get the opportunity to make it their reality. In this poem, Hughes voices these silent Americans’ concern of how the founding principles of America are not being fulfilled unless a person is wealthy or powerful. He shows the contrast between what America claims to be and what the minority have experienced. Hughes use of repetition, “America [It] never was America to me” (lines 5, 10, 77), emphasizes how America failed him and other

On this day in 1814, Francis Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America’s national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner.” Originally titled “The Defence of Fort McHenry,” was written after Key witnessed the Maryland fort being attacked by the British during the War of 1812. Scott was inspired by the sight of a lone U.S. flag still flying over Fort McHenry at daybreak.

In the poem Veterans Day by Dick Allen, there were many vivid observations made by the reader. The poem discusses two different people, who have taken different routes during the Vietnam War. The tone of the poem makes the reader assume the narrator has a grudge over the veterans, specifically veterans who were in the Vietnam War. Throughout the poem, the narrator is somewhat lashing out at this person, and the person is no one in particular; he could be a stranger, but a stranger who took part in the Vietnam War. The narrator gains the reader’s attention by making distinct comparisons between him and the veteran: “You were the soldier shouting at the rain. I was the marcher with a cause to claim.” The detail of the soldier shouting in the

Too much ego can kill your talent. This statement expresses the fact that one’s ego can kill our strengths, skills, and talents. Due to Casey’s haughty, stern, and vicious superiority complex, the Mudville nine lost their game.     First, Casey shows his first streak of defiance. In the poem “ Casey at the Bat’’, Casey shows great haughty and strn characteristics which affected her baseball game.

Vance Joy was born in 1987, and raised in Melbourne, Australia as James Keough. He found his stage name in a book by a famous Australian author, Peter Carey. Before his career in music, Vance Joy played Football in the Victorian Football League, and won an award for best first player in 2008. He attended Melbourne’s Monash University and received a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree. Since then, he has released an EP in 2013, and a year later debuted his first album.

or this assignment, I had chosen to read both poems by Sherman Alexie, and after doing so I could analyze that Alexie had strong feeling and opinions on how American had looked at native American and that he really understood what Native American went through on the reservations. In the first poem, Alexie likes to talk about how a Native American is on a train traveling and the women next to him were trying to tell him all the history about the house on the hill. However, the native American claimed he didn’t “give a shit” about any of the history because he had already known because it was his culture. I analyzed this by taking in that American cannot educate on one's other culture or history if they didn’t learn properly. It is yes history

“Let America be America Again,” he says “I am the people, humble, hungry, mean- hungry yet despite the dream” (line 34 stanzas 10). Despite slavery still being abolished African Americans were still lower class because of white superiority, they used violence in society to enforce the power, so they could keep the African Americans below whites in the social hierarchy. Throughout the whole poem, he talks about the character and how all his fantasies of America are fake. “Let America be America Again”, is a poem by Langston Hughes and it demonstrates how his thoughts for America was only a white man’s dream.

Bobert was walking down the stairs. He fell on some pairs. He even found a single hair. He swallowed air. He fought a bear. His sister’s name was Blair. She has a chair. He couldn’t dare. He had to be fair. He had some flare. He even glared. He said a prayer. He liked stuff that was rare. He didn’t like to be scared. He also shared. He played the snare. He didn’t stare. He didn’t swear. He liked to tear. He didn’t wear. THE END

In the poem “America” penned by Claude McKay in 1921, the speaker explains that even though America seems to be sucking the life out of him, and hates him, he still loves the country as it plunges itself towards certain death. The 1920’s were a very exciting time but also full of struggles. The recent invention of the automobile and subsequent lack of paved roads are a good example of an excitement and struggle, these struggles and excitements could help us determine the meaning of McKay’s interpretation of America. He sites many examples and gives his thoughts about American society, like how it treats its citizens, how it acts, and its dismal future. So, what does this poem mean when you discuss the life of an average 1920’s American?

“The Soldier” is a poem about a generic, yet ideal soldier, which is indicated by Rupert Brooke’s use of the word “The” instead of “A” when describing the soldier in the title. The usage of “I” and “me” in the poem suggests a first person point of view, which makes the poem more personal and realistic to the reader. This poem is a sonnet because the first stanza contains eight lines and the second stanza contains six. Throughout “The Soldier,” the repetition of “English” and “England” shows how important his homeland is to the soldier and his high level of patriotism. In line five, England is personified, and although England is not a living thing, the soldier sees his country as his creator and as a sort of mother figure. Brooke’s use of alliteration throughout the poem helps it flow; the use of caesura breaks up the lines. Perfect external rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter are used throughout the poem, which both give the poem flow and rhythm. The “dust” in lines four and five is a metaphor for the soldier’s life; England created him and he will become “dust concealed” when he dies and is buried. The first stanza of “The Soldier” uses various lines of imagery: “some corner of a foreign field… In that rich earth a richer dust concealed… flowers… Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.” These forms of imagery emphasize the soldier’s death and how his death will cleanse him of any wrongdoings he had done in his time on earth. The “rivers” and “suns” are personified as