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142 Unit 2 ■ Analyzing Comparisons and Representations Amanda Gorman ■ In This Place 143 UNIT 2

There’s a poem in Boston’s Copley Square Guided Questions How could this not be her city Guided Questions SUGGESTED RESPONSES
sunación
where protest chants 3. What values are 9 sunación 9. n what way is the TO GUIDED QUESTIONS
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tear through the air suggested by the 55 our country “American lyric” FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 9. The American lyric is a metaphor for the
our country
our America,
like sheets of rain, comparisons to our America, a metaphor, and diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and
our American lyric to write
15 where love of the many various locations in our American lyric to write — — what does it have experiences represented by the people of the
America?
to do with the list
swallows hatred of the few. a poem by the people, the poor, that follows?
4. How does this country; the list notes the variety of different
There’s a poem in Charlottesville simile create a the Protestant, the Muslim, the Jew, types of people in the country.
where tiki torches string a ring of flame message about 60 the native, the immigrant, 10. Hope for a brighter future and restoration is
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protest?
tight round the wrist of night the black, the brown, the blind, the brave, within reach, and poets have the capability to
20 where men so white they gleam blue — 5. What is the the undocumented and undeterred, do so through their stories and poems.
simile and how
seem like statues does it connect the woman, the man, the nonbinary,
where men heap that long wax burning to a message the white, the trans,
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ever higher about the human 65 the ally to all of the above
experience?
where Heather Heyer and more?
25 blooms forever in a meadow of resistance. Tyrants fear the poet.
There’s a poem in the great sleeping giant 6. Explain the Now that we know it
of Lake Michigan, defiantly raising comparison of we can’t blow it.
its big blue head to Milwaukee and Chicago — Lake Michigan 70 We owe it
to a sleeping
a poem begun long ago, blazed into frozen soil, giant. How does to show it
30 strutting upward and aglow. this comparison not slow it
contribute to an although it
There’s a poem in Florida, in East Texas understanding of hurts to sew it.
where streets swell into a nexus the poem? 75 when the world
of rivers, cows afloat like mottled buoys in the brown, skirts below it.
where courage is now so common
Hope — —
35 that 23-year-old Jesus Contreras rescues people from floodwaters. 10 Hope 10. What is the
we must bestow it
we must bestow it function of this
There’s a poem in Los Angeles 7. How does the like a wick in the poet comparison,
like a wick in the poet
and how does it
yawning wide as the Pacific tide poet create an 80 so it can grow, lit, contribute to the
so it can grow, lit,
where a single mother swelters association within bringing with it message of the
bringing with it
this metaphor?
in a windowless classroom, teaching stories to rewrite poem?
stories to rewrite — —
40 black and brown students in Watts the story of a Texas city depleted but not defeated
to spell out their thoughts a history written that need not be repeated
so her daughter might write 85 a nation composed but not yet completed.
this poem for you.
There’s a poem in this place —
There’s a lyric in California a poem in America
45 where thousands of students march for blocks, a poet in every American
undocumented and unafraid; who rewrites this nation, who tells
where my friend Rosa finds the power to blossom
90 a story worthy of being told on this minnow of an earth
in deadlock, her spirit the bedrock of her community. to breathe hope into a palimpsest of time —
She knows hope is like a stubborn 8. How does this a poet in every American
50 ship gripping a dock, simile compare a who sees that our poem penned
a truth: that you can’t stop a dreamer concrete object doesn’t mean our poem’s end.
with ideas about the
or knock down a dream. human experience?
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COMPREHENSION CHECK
1. According to the speaker, what type of ruler fears the poet? [Tyrants]
2. The speaker states that the American lyric is a poem written by the ________. [people]
3. The poem in Copley Square is where “love of the many swallows _______ of the few.” [hatred]
4. The poem in “Florida, East Texas” describes the devastating effects of what kind of natural
disaster? [Flood]
5. The students in the lyric in California “march for blocks” and are described as being
“undocumented and _________.” [unafraid]
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