"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...
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...
The Hill We Climb study guide contains a biography of Amanda Gorman, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.