The Impulse Of Morning By Maya Angelou And Amanda Gorman's

Why Maya Angelou and Amanda Gorman want the same thing Imagine living in an America where everyone got along. That is what Maya Angelou and Amanda Gorman are trying to accomplish in their poems "The Hill We Climb" and "On the Pulse of Morning," Amanda Gorman wrote "The Hill We Climb" in 2020-2021, and Maya Angelou wrote "The Pulse of Morning" in 1993. Maya Angelou and Amanda Gorman have written two poems, both talking about unifying the United States, but they have written the poems in two completely different ways and tones, they both are for presidential inaugurations, though they are for different periods, and they have different writing styles. The two poets have the same topic but have different ways of expressing the needed unity of

Angelou and Gorman both explain that the United States needed to try harder to unite. For example, in Angelou's poem lines 43-52 say, "So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew the African and Native American, the Sioux, The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek the Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh, The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher. They hear. They all hear the speaking of the Tree. Today, the first and last of every Tree Speaks to humankind." This explains that no matter who anyone is, their skin tone, or their nationality, they are all the same. To demonstrate my point further in Gorman's poem lines 36-40 she writes, "We will not march back to what was but move to what shall be, a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free, we will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation, our blunders become their burden." This shows that the United States should stand together and be tall no matter the difference or the

Angelou and Gorman have completely different structures when it comes to writing. Angelou uses more of a stanza type where there is usually a group of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of metrical lengths with a sequence of rhymes. While Gorman has more of a paragraph form of writing where a group of verse lines make up a paragraph format. In Maya Angelou's poem 'On the Pulse of Morning', lines 24-28 state, " A River sings a beautiful song/ Come rest here by my side/ Each of you a bordered country/ Delicate and strangely made proud/ Yet thrusting perpetually under siege." This helps show the difference in writing structure because it has breaks in the stanzas to help demonstrate the rhymes in each stanza. Amanda Gorman's poem 'The Hill We Climb' lines 21-23 says, " Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their vine and fig tree, and no one should make them afraid. If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade but in all of the bridges we’ve made." This helps show the paragraph type because it is just straight lines that don't have a rhyme cut off. Angelou and Gorman have separate ways when comes to making their points get across. Angelou has more of a Powerful, Meaningful, serious, stern, and expectant type of tone when it comes to her poems, while Gorman has more of an energetic, performative, positive, and inspirational tone when it