It officially closed November 21st, 1939. This was over 6 years after WWll had ended.
The hill of the poem's title symbolizes the challenge of building a fairer, freer, better America.
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it's when you motivate yourself negatively. Or just a punishisment based boosting method to make you stop doing a certain thing. (Smoking, drugs, etc.)
A. the tone shifts in the last two lines