In the poems “On the Pulse of Morning” by Maya Angelou, and “One Today” by Richard Blanco the poet's touch on the challenges facing the American people. Angelou speaks about the challenge we have as Americans to set aside our differences and accept each other,and the different cultures we have. Richard Blanco talks about how everyone is the same no matter how different we look on the outside. These are challenges we need to overcome as a nation. In “On the Pulse of Morning” Angelou says in stanza two she states, “But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant destiny, But seek no haven in my shadow.I will give you no hiding place down here.”
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In each stanza he explains similar things everyone does throughout the day,and how we share things we didn’t know we shared. In stanza four he says,”One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane so my brother and I could have books and shoes.” In these lines he’s telling the audience that no one is more superior than the next person. We all walk on the same ground, and the people you think you're better than work hard to make sure our country, and people will eat, and survive.In stanza six, he states, “...Hear: the doors we open for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días in the language my mother taught me–in every language spoken into one wind carrying our lives without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.” Here he explains that being prejudice isn’t natural. If someone didn’t belong on this earth they wouldn’t be able to
In that stanza she is saying that …show more content…
In each stanza he explains similar things everyone does throughout the day,and how we share things we didn’t know we shared. In stanza four he says,”One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane so my brother and I could have books and shoes.” In these lines he’s telling the audience that no one is more superior than the next person. We all walk on the same ground, and the people you think you're better than work hard to make sure our country, and people will eat, and survive.In stanza six, he states, “...Hear: the doors we open for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días in the language my mother taught me–in every language spoken into one wind carrying our lives without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.” Here he explains that being prejudice isn’t natural. If someone didn’t belong on this earth they wouldn’t be able to