http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/why-%e2%80%98the-star-spangled-banner%e2%80%99-is-bad-poetry-and-other-literary-thoughts-on-the-olympics/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/why-%e2%80%98the-star-spangled-banner%e2%80%99-is-bad-poetry-and-other-literary-thoughts-on-the-olympics/#comment-6680 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:03:18 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=1828#comment-6680 Amelia –
You could be right. My sense is that Francis Scott Key was using “home” in the sense of “homeland,” so that “home” and “land” have nearly identical meanings. But there’s room for interpretation here. I’d love to know what the scholars who have studied “The Star-Spangled Banner” have said.
Jan

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