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The Hill We Climb Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for The Hill We Climb is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
"The Hill We Climb" was first performed by Amanda Gorman on January 20, 2021, at the inauguration of President Joe Biden. As the youngest inaugural poet in history and the first National Youth Poet Laureate, Gorman's performance was an...
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She uses words like "dawn" , "striving", and "purpose" that point to the future.
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The speaker begins to answer the question by using the metaphor of a new day, a dawn that comes after the darkness. She sees a nation that isn't broken beyond repair.
And yet the dawn is ours
before we knew it.
Somehow we do it.
Somehow we've...
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