Tony Hoagland: An Analysis Of American Poetry

One big continent, filled with a dark past of war, and also in some part forgiven and beauty resume in just one word America. People often refers to America as United States being all that America has to offer and we often forget that America is a lot more than that. But something is true United States resumes America to the core, here in the land of opportunity we can find everything, from the native Indians that one had ancestors that fight the colonist, to Argentinians, Cubans, Mexicans and everyone, from everywhere, and that is what make us exceptional. America is everything like Claude McKay said in his poem, even though sometimes living here can make us suffered, even though this country is not perfect we cannot help but love America. We represent everything that is good and bad, and we are always fitting to keep the balance, and yes sometimes we fail. Like McKay said her vigor and strange gave people hope, that one day all that is bad with going to go away. We are constantly fighting against our past trying to make things right, we want to be perfect and we don’t realize that we can’t be perfect, we can only try to have justice and freedom, to be different. We need the confront the future with the chin up and our eyes focused on goodness.
Tony Hoagland in contrast make a criticism to the part of America that consumist, how we have led our love for MacDonald’s and Netflix intervene in our social life’s, but that is just part of the growing of a society and the advanced of it. Like I said before America is not perfect, but without any doubt I can say that is the greatest place to live, because at the end I think, we are not just the representation of a continent, we are the representation of all the