[Watch] Amanda Gorman, "The Hill We Climb"
On Jan. 20, 2021, National Youth Poet laureate Amanda Gorman was selected to perform a reading of her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony. A striking performance which garnered her international acclaim and subsequent commercial success, on top of being widely saluted as a symbol of national reconciliation after 4 years of Trump presidency.
Watch this performance and analyze the writing of the poem in light of the main theme of our study of the USA as a "narrative nation":
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