Star Spangled Banner Questions?

1. I have to write a paper on how it inspires patriotism, but since it doesn't really inspire me, I would like you to give me reasons that it inspires you. I can't write my paper without reasons.



2. Can someone explain all the lyrics to me? Here they are if you need them:



Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?



On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!



And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,

A home and a country should leave us no more!

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!



Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Star Spangled Banner Questions?
In context, Francis Scott Key was watching a fort under siege during the war of 1812. In the first verse, he's wondering if the American flag still stands over the fort; in the second, he is relieved to find that it is; in the third, he's cheering that America won the war (really more of draw, and that thanks to Napoleon, but hey), and in the fourth, he hopes that Americans will always demonstrate the spirit that they did during that siege.
Reply:If you can't understand these lyrics, you need not bother with writing your paper. You'll get an 'F' anyway. And by the way, Happy Memorial Day.
Reply:it inspires me because it talk about how lucky we are to be in america