America The Beautiful Poem

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The author’s use of diction create an uplifting patriotic tone in in the poem “America the beautiful.” Bates begins each stanza with the same three words, “o beautiful for…” focusing not on America’s flaws but all the beauty in our country. For instance at the start of stanza four, she writes, “o beautiful for heroes / proved in liberating strife who more than self her country loved / and mercy more than life.

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