Professional Documents
Culture Documents
M2 America The Beautiful
M2 America The Beautiful
in 1893, Katherine Lee Bates wrote the poem America the Beautiful. Her poem first appeared in print on July 4,
1895 in TheCongregationalist, a weekly journal. Ms. Bates revised the lyrics in 1904 and again in 1913.
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriter: Alexander Courage / Katherine Bates / Samuel Ward
Annotations:
amber: yellow plain: flat land thee (object) – you thoroughfare: Hauptverkehrsstraße to
mend: to repair flaw: small error, unevenness thine/thy (possessive): your
for (here): because strife: Anstrengung self: themselves be nobleness: will be of magnanimity
(Großherzigkeit) alabaster: shiny white (as the alabaster stone, a very expensive
material used by artists for making statues for example) to shed one’s grace on sb.: to be kind
and merciful towards sb.
Tasks:
a) Closely examine the lyrics of the song. What image of America is created? (quote from the text)