With close reference to any two poems on this course, critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness

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07/20/2006

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Table of Contents With close reference to any two poems on this course, 
critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness
 Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The Star Spangled Banner
  3. The love of the flag
  4. The poem Theme for English B
  5. Conclusion
  6. Bibliography

Abstract

One can find a great variety of themes in american poetry, whatever the period one is interested in: poems about love or about war, about the self or about nature, about reality or about dreams. But the common point of all these is that they convey a sense of american-ness - that is, they can all explain differently what it is to be american. For instance, Francis Scott Key in his 1814 poem entitled "Defence of Fort M'Henry" - that was to become the american national anthem under the title "The Star-Spangled Banner" - argued that to be an american was primarily to be a patriot. Another viewpoint is that of Langston Hughes: in "Theme for English B", written in 1951, he suggested that to be american was to be part and parcel of a multicultural society in which inequalities exist, and that minorities had to fight their way into this society. The difference between these two conceptions of american-ness can be explained by looking at the periods the poets lived in and the backgrounds they came from.

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