During the depression people were unemployed some starving, uprooted from homes that had been around for generations, ghettos, millions of lives altered.
Where was the American Dread Alive and Well?
Organizing an outline would be your answer.
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Overall the tone is intimate, ironic and confessional. It's as if the speaker is whispering to the reader, drawing them ever closer in, just as the song does with the sailors in the ancient Greek myths
I believe its Nonverbal hope that i was able to help you out