22-year-old poet who caught the attention of Lady Gaga Praise Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of the president of the United States: Tokyo Shimbun TOKYO Web



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Amanda Gorman = AP reading her own poem at the presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC on the 20th.

Amanda Gorman = AP reading her own poem at the presidential inauguration ceremony held in Washington, DC on the 20th.

Poet Amanda Gorman (22) drew attention at President Biden’s inauguration ceremony held at the United States Capitol on the 20th (before dawn on the 21st Japan time). The youngest poet of all time to attend the opening. In an age of division and anxiety, accolades were gathered from around the world for her beautiful poetry and dignified performance that demanded unity and a walk into the future.

The title of the poem is “The Hill We Climb”. The area around the Capitol is commonly known as “Capitol Hill.” Gorman, who appeared after Biden’s keynote speech, cut the following.

“I wonder when the sun will rise. Where can I find light in this endless shadow?”

“We saw the power to crush the country instead of sharing it,” he said of the mafia’s invasion of Capitol Hill on the 6th. “Even if democracy is delayed for a while, I will not lose forever.”

“Let us leave a much better country in the future than the one entrusted to us.” “We will rebuild, reconcile and recover.” “There is always light. The courage and the light that we see it. If you have the courage.” become, “he said.

◆ “It is a poem that transcends time and space”.

Gorman graduated from Harvard University last year. In this poem he describes himself as “a skinny black girl who is the descendant of a slave and raised by a single mother, and the president is not a dream.” According to the New York Times, the opening reading was recommended by Biden’s wife, Jill.

On Gorman’s poetry, the media praised “I had an inauguration” (Guardian English newspaper electronic version) “It is a poem left beyond time and space” (BBC broadcasts electronic version), Hillary Clinton Democratic Party “Promises to be in the 2036 Presidential Election. I can’t wait, “he said on Twitter. (Mayumi Kojima)

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