5/29/2023 0 Comments Evidence poems mary oliver![]() ![]() 11 attacks before a special joint meeting of Congress. In 2002, Billy Collins delivered a memorial poem for the victims of the Sept. Denise Levertov wrote one poem after another after another to protest the war in Vietnam. Langston Hughes’s “ Mississippi - 1955” came in direct response to the murder of Emmett Till. Walt Whitman’s “ When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln. Poets have always given voice to our losses at times of national calamity. ![]() After a year of losses both literal and figurative, she offered a salve that soothed, however briefly, our broken hearts and our broken age. Gorman’s poem - addressed to “Americans, and the World” - was timeless in that way of the most necessary poems, but it was more than just timeless. ![]() Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: When the poet Amanda Gorman stepped to the lectern at President Biden’s inauguration, she faced a much-diminished crowd of masked people on the National Mall, but she was speaking directly to the heart of a bruised nation: ![]()
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