the hill we climb
Book Details
Author:
Amanda Gorman
Author
Amanda Gorman
Category
Poetry
Age group
10-12 Years
The poem celebrates the U.S. not as a "perfect union," but as a country that has the grit to struggle with its all-too-real problems. Progress, the poem argues, doesn't happen all at once: it's a slow and sometimes painful "climb" up the "hill" of justice, a climb that takes patience and humility