Transcription of Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem, "The Hill We Climb"

[Ramsey Barner]

[Needs editing and formatting, but here are most of the words in the right order!]

[link:https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/amanda-gorman-inauguration-poem-transcript-the-hill-we-climb|

we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one

[Iwasthere]

1. This should be framed and hung in the Capital

[better]

2. This truly was an AMAZING piece.

[soldierant]

3. Thank you!

Listening, I was struck by the breadth of cultural diversity just in her construction. For just one example, she didn't limit herself to rhyme and meter, but also made significant use of alliteration - which was the primary poetic device of the Elder Edda and other sagas.

[Nitram]

5. She uses very interesting word play such as the contrasts between "just is" and "justice",

tired and tried. She also skillfully employees turns of phrase such as "not to what stands between us, but what stands before us", ""Our blunders become their burdens", "while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us", and "while once we asked, how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe, now we assert, how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us".

By the way, there are some errors in the transcript at the link above. A more accurate transcript can be found here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html

[Nitram]

4. Very moving. The definitive summation of what it is to be an American.