1. JFK's Effect on American Literature
... to read at Kennedy's inauguration called "Dedication." Frost was in his eighties at the time, there was a strong wind, and the sun was reflecting off of newly fallen snow (Mills 193). He decided to recite a poem from memory called "The Gift Outright." "The Gift Outright" starts "The land was ours before we were the land's. / She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her ... . "Abraham, Martin and John" is about how now Bobby Kennedy is gone too and about how he also tried to help people, like Abraham, Martin and John did. The poet W. H. Auden wrote a poem to honor John Ke...
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- Grade Level: High School