Some time ago a kid asked me about the meaning of the word "homeland."
You surprised me with your question
and, with my soul in my throat,
said like this:
"Neighborhood flower, little brother!
Homeland are so many beautiful things!
Like that old tree that that poem tells us about.
Like the love you still keep after your grandmother is dead.
Homeland are so many beautiful things!
They are the walls of a neighborhood,
It is his dark hope: it is what he carries in his soul
everyone when he walks
away. They are the martins who shout: "Flag, flag, flag, flag!"
Do not memorize lessons of dictatorships or confinements:
the homeland is a feeling like the look of an old man,
the sun of eternal spring, the laugh of a new sister. I
answer you, little brother, ipatria are so many beautiful things!

1. How much does the homeland mean to the author of this song?

2. What verse or fragment would you choose as your favorite?

3. Why does this fragment attract your attention? What do you think the author meant when he wrote it?

4.Do you think that this song can reflect, in part, the feelings of the Americans who fought for their independence?

5. What other feelings or attributes would you use to describe the homeland?​