With close reference to any two poems on this course, critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Star Spangled Banner
- The love of the flag
- The poem Theme for English B
- Conclusion
- 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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