American Dream Song Analysis by Ayumu Seki

America the Beautiful

aseki9515 — 2024-03-05 15:12:59 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYH8v42a2w

Ray Charles

aseki9515 — 2024-03-05 15:13:38 UTC

What is your song about?

aseki9515 — 2024-03-05 15:37:46 UTC

The song is about how beautiful the America is. It sings about beautiful heroes, and the beautiful skies. It also talks about the success of the individuals implying the American Dream.

Annotation 1

aseki9515 — 2024-03-05 15:38:31 UTC

And mercy more than life

America, America may God thy gold refine

Wishing American to be a successful country.

How is it related to the American Dream? (add textual evidence)

aseki9515 — 2024-03-08 14:52:25 UTC

It sings “Til all success be nobleness And every gain divined.” This lyrics wishes individual’s success and wishes people glorious success that is achieved by hard work which is the main idea of the American Dream.

Is it positive or negative vision of the American Dream? Why? (add textual evidence)

aseki9515 — 2024-03-08 14:53:00 UTC

This song sees the American Dream in a positive vision because this song describes America as a paradise when the writer says “Oh beautiful, for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain” The artist sees America as a perfect landscape and can only see the good things about america while being able to disregard the issues going on in America during the 1970’s. The song puts America in a likable position and the artist seems strongly patriotic and would most likely be influenced to like the American Dream.

Annotation 2

aseki9515 — 2024-03-08 14:56:37 UTC

Oh beautiful for heroes proved

In liberating strife

The people fighting for america are called beautiful because they are fighting for their own freedom and wish for america to be free of hardship and challenges.

aseki9515 — 2024-03-08 15:06:14 UTC

aseki9515 — 2024-03-08 15:06:34 UTC