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Poem Analysis: America Comes After God
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Title-
the poem will be about the journey to God

Paraphrase-
America comes after God
I love you land of my ancestors shown by the songs of patriotism that I sing for a long time, we worry about time running out in every language
American enthusiasm is meaningless
Why talk about beauty, when the most beautiful thing is those heroes that died who rushed like animals into the fight without stopping to think and dying as a result
Liberty can't say anything to this.

He spoke. and quickly drank a glass of water.

Connotation-
There is alliteration on line 7 and 8: “by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum”
There is a simile on line 11: “who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter”
There are two examples of personification, on line 7 “"...thy

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