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Roethke Night Journey
Night Journey BY: Theodore Roethke

So you asked us to determine the degree of how American we think the poem is. Well this one I'm going to have to go and give it a first degree. The first thing that I would say I noticed was that they were talking about being on a train and going out west. In a history class a while back I remember talking about a set of train tracks that ran all the way across America. He was talking about looking out the window and seeing trees and mountains and all I could think about is the train coasting through the Appellations. And lastly the last line of the poem is very important. "to see the land I love". When I read this all I can imagine is a proud American just looking out his window and seeing the land he loves.
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