The sympathy of stanza four becomes brilliantly evoked, dramatic empathy as the speaker thinks himself into the mouse’s mind and recreates its experience - Thou saw and Thou thought. We also see ...

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Clague: This whole stanza was cut from the National Anthem because of its mocking of the ...

Nov. 7): The NAACP wants the Star Spangled Banner removed as our National Anthem because the author was a slave owner and the third stanza of the poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”.

Boiled down to its essence, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a song about survival and resilience, about bravery and hope. The first stanza of Francis Scott Key's 1814 poem, as sung by generations of ...