The American Hero is a sapphic ode exerted from The American National song book. Written by Nathaniel Nile, a very respected lawyer, Doctor, inventor, congressman, and on occasions even a preacher. Nile, wrote this famously sung song during times of war specially inspired by the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775 and the burning of Charlestown, which the American Hero is also known as “Bunker Hill”. It expresses how greatly inevitable death is during the war and not to be afraid of such comings with a lot of references to God and respect for Him. It is suspected that this specific sapphic ode was attributed to Sylvanus Ripley of New England or to Andrew Law of Connecticut.
Furthermore, the American Hero begins by raising the question throughout the poem of “why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of death and destruction in the field of battle?”, this already gives it the haunting feeling of how
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The second to last verse mentions that even stronger than Medusa’s serpents he will go on and be the American Hero that is needed. It ends with such a strong feeling of freedom, braveness, proudness and challenge the adonic stance says through it all, even in the fury of battle and destruction going in with no fear “Life is redoubled”.
It's vivid description throughout the whole poem, is all based on the events of the Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown. A battle that took place just about the start of the American Revolution due to Boston being flooded by the militia and British desperately needing to control the “rebels”that but a fort on top of the hill. The burning of Charlestown mentioned in the poem was the burning of the whole town to get rid of the American