What is The Gift Outright about?

Question

The Gift Outright


The land was ours before we were the land’sShe was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people. She was oursIn Massachusetts, in Virginia,But we were England’s, still colonials,Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.Something we were withholding made us weakUntil we found out that it was ourselvesWe were withholding from our land of living,And forthwith found salvation in surrender.Such as we were we gave ourselves outright(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)To the land vaguely realizing westward,But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,Such as she was, such as she will become.


in 5-7 sentences please!

Answer 1

The colonization and manifest destiny of the U.S.A. The original settlers lived "on" the land, but didn't become "one" with the land until we broke from England and made it our own....but just as God told the Isrealites to go get their land of milk and honey (all they had to do was kill every man, woman and child who made it that way), so too did the early Americans have to fight with just about everybody else who was in their way (the Brits, French, Mexicans, Spaniards, Indians...just about everyone). They had a vague understanding that they'd continue out west, but it was for future generations, so it was "unstoried, etc."

hope you get an "A"

Answer 2

too hard to read. Punctuation gives several interpretations.
it'skindaliketryingtoreadonelongcontinuousword.
Not quite, but almost.