![]() As the essay, who many would argue is a lyrical poem, is titled Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Rankine spends a great deal of time exploring not only what loneliness is in the playing field of modern culture, but also how her experience with loneliness has shaped how she views her self and the role of the individual.Īs the essay’s subtitle is An American Lyric, the reader is apt to anticipate Rankine’s use of metaphorical and rhetorical language to explore her greater focus of loneliness. Bush, and Timothy McVeigh to name a few), the essay is also focused on her idea of loneliness and its connection to both an individual and modern society. Yet, while Rankine studies her culture and the world at large post 9/11 in tackling controversial political issues (9/11, George W. Rankine certainly explores America’s rise to capitalism in the essay through writing about 9/11 and how it produced this sense of what she calls “American optimism,” a modern take on the classic ideology of the American dream (23). ![]() In coining her essay an “American lyric,” Rankine both structures her analysis within a specific culture, but also encourages her readers to actively participate in her thought process. Claudia Rankine titles her exploration of America during the dawn of the twenty-first century and her discovery of the self Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. ![]()
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