Look over the poem and REREAD the lines that you have chosen to analyze. Refer to the figurative language chart that is attached to the assignment in CLASSWORK to help you identify the figurative language in your focus lines. Lastly, explain the author’s message in relation to her American Experience. inside me:
from the soles
of Tierra del Fuego
to the thin waist
of Chiriqui
up the spine of the
Mississippi
through the heartland
of the Yanquis
to the great plain face of Canada—
all of us
singing America,