Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" - Biden's Inaugural Poem v William McGonagall |
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Video of the recital: https://youtu.be/LZ055ilIiN4
The Guardian, “‘An inspiration to us all’: Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem stirs hope and awe”: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/amanda-gorman-poem-biden-inauguration Litany of praise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_We_Climb#Reception Staffordshire University Department of English and Creative Writing ("The linguistic sonority of the line pivots both accentually and alliteratively around the plangent semi-vowel ‘w’ like a plainchant—and ‘w’, being somewhat liminal in phonetic quality embodies the blended space Gorman creates in almost gospel gravitas."): http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/ecw/2021/01/22/with-every-breath-from-my-bronze-pounded-chest-we-will-raise-this-wounded-world-into-a-wondrous-one-amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem/ The Late Late Show with James Corden: ("Amanda Gorman Is Giving Americans Hope"): https://youtu.be/lNZfYnBsEdM The Kelly Clarkson Show ("Kelly Tears Up During Poetry Reading From Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman"): https://youtu.be/4HBUSMPYYpI CNN's Anderson Cooper ("'Overjoyed': Hear from poet who stole the show at inauguration"): https://youtu.be/qHhut5nhI8g |