This land is your land woo

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This Land Is your Land
Woody Guthrie
BY JUWARIA ARSHAD
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This land is your landwoody Guthrie

• This land is your land, this land is my land
  From California, to the New York Island From the
  redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
• This land was made for you and me

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• As I was walking a ribbon of highway
• I saw above me an endless skyway
• I saw below me a golden valley
• This land was made for you and me

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• I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my
  footsteps
• To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
• And all around me a voice was sounding This land
  was made for you and me

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• The sun comes shining, as I was strolling The
  wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
• The fog was lifting, a voice come chanting This
  land was made for you and me

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Woody Guthrie

• "Woody" Guthrie was born in July 14, 1912.
  October 3, 1967) he was an American songwriter.
  Guthrie is best known for his song "This Land Is
  Your Land" which is regularly sung in American
  schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived
  in the Library of Congress. He was a first-hand
  observer and survivor of the economic and
  environmental hardships of the Dust Bowl era
  during the Great Depression and became known as
  the "Dust Bowl Troubadour". Guthrie was
  associated with, but never a member of, Communist
  groups in the United States throughout his life.
  Guthrie was married three times and fathered
  eight children, including American folk musician
  Arlo Guthrie. Guthrie died in october3,1967
  from complications of the degenerative neurologic
  affliction known as Huntington's Disease.

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This land is your land

• This land is your land is one of the most famous
  folk song in the United States. Lyrics were
  written by woody Guthrie in 1940. he wrote the
  song in 1940 and record the song in 1944, the
  song was not published until 1951. Ludlow was the
  first professionally printed publication who
  administered the publishing rights to Guthrie
  tune.

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Historical facts

• The 1940's were dominated by World War II.
• Many of his recorded songs are archived in the
  Library of congress.
• He was a first-hand observer and survivor of the
  economic and environmental hardships of the Dust
  Bowl era during the Great Depression.
• Guthrie was associated with, but never a member
  of, Communist groups in the United States
  throughout his life

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Literary terms

• The ribbon of highway is a metaphor.
• metaphor is the comparison of two unlike things
  using the verb "to be" and not using like or as
  in a simile.
• Figurative device one is metaphor and other is
  alliteration. For example roamed and rambled,
  sparkling sands, and diamond desert.
• I saw below me a golden valley
• An example of slant rhyme is in the lines
• I saw before me a golden valley/This land was
  made for you and me because valley and me do not
  exactly rhyme.

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Literary terms

• It is a free verse poem. Free verse poem is
  poetry not written in a regular rthymical pattern
  or meter.
• it has 4 stanzas. Stanza is a unified group of
  lines in poetry.
• It has some rhyming couplets. Couplet is a pair
  of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that
  rhyme and are of the same length. For example
• As I was walking a ribbon of highway
• I saw above me an endless skyway
• Refrain repeated words are this land is for and
  me

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DUST BOWL

• The Dust Bowl, or the "dirty thirties", was a
  period of severe dust storms causing major
  ecological and agricultural damage to American
  and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in
  some areas until 1940), caused by severe drought
  coupled with decades of extensive farming without
  crop rotation or other techniques to prevent
  erosion.

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Great depression

• The Great Depression (also known as the Great
  Slump) was a dramatic, worldwide economic
  downturn beginning in some countries as early as
  1928. The beginning of the Great Depression in
  the United States is associated with the stock
  market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black
  Tuesday. The depression had devastating effects
  in both the industrialized countries and those
  which exported raw materials. International trade
  declined sharply, as did personal incomes, tax
  revenues, prices, and profits. Cities all around
  the world were hit hard, especially those
  dependent on heavy industry. Construction was
  virtually halted in many countries. Farming and
  rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by 40 to
  60 percent

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NEW YORK ISLAND
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Red wood forest
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Golden valley
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endless skyway
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diamond desert
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fog
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Wheat field
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Ribbon of highway
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