In the interview, she says, “I think ‘Hamilton’ is such a great kind of American cultural piece of what it means to be a better country.”Īfter the Inauguration, Hamilton writer Lin Manuel Miranda expressed his excitement about her poem on Twitter, to which Gorman replied, confirming the two references. Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gormans remarkable new collection reveals an energizing and unforgettable voice in American poetry. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Gorman talked about her speech impediment and explained that she would try to sing along with the song “Aaron Burr, Sir” to help her with her pronunciation of the letter “r.” Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old Los Angeles-born writer and performer and Americas youth poet laureate, recited her poem The Hill We Climb at Joe Bidens. Gorman not only used the musical as inspiration for the language used in the poem, but it also impacted her reading of it. This is another reference to Washington and the song “History Has Its Eyes on You.” The line “History Has Its Eyes on Me/You.” is used frequently throughout various songs in the musical.Īside from these lines being included, Hamilton played a huge role in the poem in another way. The second Hamilton reference comes a bit later in the poem in the line, “For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.”
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