It is imperative that, for the sake of the generations to come, Americans act now. The confident plosives of ‘benevolent but bold’ and the fierce fricatives of ‘fierce and free’ reflect her resolution and conviction. In the ensuing lines, Gorman talks of the need to march onwards, rather than falling backwards to old ways: the country must progress rather than regress from that dark moment. Although a literary allusion is an indirect reference to something, rather than naming it outright, Gorman’s reference to democracy being ‘periodically delayed’ seems to be a fairly clear nod to the Storming of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021 – just a few weeks before Gorman recited her poem at Biden’s inauguration.īut democracy cannot be defeated, she tells us. In the next lines, we get an allusion to recent events in Washington, D. Americans of today need to acknowledge the past (good and bad) which they ‘inherit’, and ‘repair’ what needs improving. This, Gorman tells us, is ‘the hill we climb’. Victory is not to be achieved through violence or war (back to that military oppression), but through building ‘bridges’ of all kinds between Americans, joining society together. Stay with us.This phrase is about being safe and free from military oppression: living a life free from fear. And we’ll speak with California law professor Michele Goodwin, author of Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. She is co-author of Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom. We’ll speak to Kathryn “Kitty” Kolbert, who argued the landmark Planned Parenthood v. When we come back, we’ll look at the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. At 22, Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet. We’ve seen a force that would shatter ourįor while we have our eyes on the future,ĪMY GOODMAN: Poet Amanda Gorman, reading her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. Won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges
If we’re to live up to our own time, then Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: We seek harm to none, and harmony for all. We, the successors of a country and a time We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,Īnd the norms and notions of what “just is”Īnd yet the dawn is ours before we knew it. She was 22 years old when she read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem she finished right after the January 6th insurrection. history when she spoke at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. She became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to poet Amanda Gorman.
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