What does these lines from the star spangled banner mean?

What so proudly we hail'd alt the twilight's last gleaming. And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air,...


O say, Does that star spangled banner yet wave...


I need sentences that mean the same things. I need them by 9:00 tonight. Whoever answers will get an extra point|||Although it was evening we could still see.


Rockets and bombs lit up the sky.


Through it all, we looked to see if our flag was still waving.|||Well, the historical background of the song is the War of 1812 that we [America] fought with Britain.





The author of the lyrics was watching the battle, and basically, it's talking about how he was waiting through the night, while the battle went on. And the rockets refer to bombs, cannons, gunfire going off, whatnot through the night that the battle went on.


And at day break, he's waiting to see which flag is still waving in the air. If America won, then the American flag would be waving in the air.|||well the star spangled banner was written by a person who was a prisoner abord a british prison ship. After a long battle he looked out at twilight after the battle and saw that the american flag was still flying (meaning that we had won) so when the fog cleared he saw the flag. The sky had lots of smoke from bombs and stuff so the sky appeared red and we shot bombs up when it was over. (bombs bursting in air) and the star spangled banner (american flag) was still waving) hope this helps|||From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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The Star-Spangled Banner


One of two surviving copies of the 1814 broadside printing of the "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem that later became the lyrics of national anthem of the United States.


National Anthem of United States


Lyrics Francis Scott Key, 1814


Music John Stafford Smith, 1780


Adopted 1931





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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, a then 35-year-old amateur poet who wrote "Defence of Fort McHenry"[1] after seeing the bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore, Maryland, by Royal Navy ships in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.





The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a London social club. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), set to various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", it would soon become a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the song has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today, with the fourth ("O thus be it ever when free men shall stand...") added on more formal occasions.





"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889 and the President in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. 搂 301), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.





Before 1931, other songs served as the hymns of American officialdom. "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody was derived from the British national anthem,[2] served as a de facto national anthem of the United States for much of the 19th century[citation needed]; and "Hail, Columbia," served as the de facto national anthem from Washington's time and through the 18th and 19th centuries. Following the War of 1812 and subsequent American wars, other songs would emerge to compete for popularity at public events, among them "The Star-Spangled Banner".|||It's referring to the American flag after the battle at Fort McHenry. By seeing the flag at dawn, the people would know that the battle was won by the Americans, not the British, hence the flag would still be flying.


The rocket's red glare the bombs nursting in air refers to the battle itself.


Oh say does that Star Spangled banner yet wave asks again if the flag is still there.|||As night descends bombs gunfire were exploding in the air. Through this all the American Flag still waved proudly.