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Should Amanda Gorman’s poem be celebrated as a poem?
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Performance of hope: Amanda Gorman recites a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.
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Should Amanda Gorman’s poem be celebrated as a poem?
You can read the poem Amanda Gorman recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony celebrated by even snooty publications like
The New Yorker simply as a speech. It cannot be faulted there. It is full of the right sentiments and hopes, coming at the end of the long night of Donald Trump’s misrule. It does not come close to the great speeches of history by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth or Martin Luther King but we do not live in an age that sets exacting standards in oratory. If we had, Trump would never have existed.