The title of the poem is important to look at in order to understand the poem's meaning. The "gift" was the sacrifice that Americans made to give future Americans freedom as well as the ability to live in a land where anything is possible . The term "outright" requires a person to think in terms of giving a gift wholeheartedly and without hesitation. Most Americans are unable to truly appreciate this concept.

The first two sentences "The land was ours before we were the land's. / She was our land more than a hundred years / Before we were her people., " refers to the colonists living on the land but not really owning it. They did not own it because they we

In lines six and seven, different meanings of the word possessed are used. In line six, "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by," Frost refers to the colonists having physical possession of the land. Again, the land could not possess them because the colonists did not own the land. In order to more

Such as she was, such as she would become.

But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,

Such as we were we gave ourselves outright

(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)

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