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 A) What's the main idea of this song? Which vision of America is given?  Give several examples and explain them. B)  Guess who the narrator is? C) What is Ellis Island? D) Who can be successful in America? Justify. E) Compare this text with the first one (the poem). F) Focus on the music:  What does it remind you of? American Land Bruce Springsteen What is this land of America, so many travel there I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can And we'll make our home in the American land Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands If you make your home in the American land There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long There's treasure for the taking, ...

 ) What sort of document is it? Justify? 2) Explain its main ideas. 3) Who is the narrator? Where does the woman come from? Why? Where is she going to arrive? 4) Guess when this text was written. Justify. 5) Focus on the style (choice of words, rhyming scheme...) 6) Give it a title... She's left ould Ireland, ashtore, She's sailed across the sea— This day I'll see her step ashore, Oh, happy day for me! Small wonder, then, this Irish boy Is thrimbling through his skin, An' in a fever heat wid joy To see his ship come in. Heart of my heart, it 's far apart For two long years we've been, But the time is past, and now at last You've come to me, Eileen. Long have I toiled and striven To see this blessed day, When she to me 'd be given. Cruel was the long delay; I made a home and sent for hcr,— My prayers 'tween her and harm— And, see! she stands to greet me, sir, Her bundle on her arm. Life of my life, my darling wife, Long has the parting been; But '...