Citing evidence from the poem, in six to eight sentences, describe the values the poet believes England embodies.

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destinykiara99 · Answer

"Land of Hope and Glory"

Land of Hope and Glory,
Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol (praise) thee,
who are born of thee?
Wider still, and wider,
shall thy bounds be set;
God, who made thee mighty,
make thee mightier yet!

Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned.
God make thee mightier yet!
On Sov'ran (sovereign or supreme) brows, beloved, renowned,
Once more thy crown is set.
Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained,
Have ruled thee well and long;
By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained,
Thine Empire shall be strong.

Thy fame is ancient as the days,
As Ocean large and wide:
A pride that dares, and heeds not praise,
A stern and silent pride.
Not that false joy that dreams content
With what our sires (forefathers) have won;
The blood a hero sire hath spent
Still nerves a hero son.

osprey · Answer

Mother of the Free, How shall we extol (praise) thee, who are born of thee?
Brits have a "maternal" right to be Free ?

God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet! 
Invoking the "divine right of kings to rule" type of argument, and proxying it via Mother to "us".

Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained, Have ruled thee well and long; By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained, Thine Empire shall be strong.

Equality and Freedom (capital lettered words) as the "emperor" subjugates the empire, "for the greater good" of all concerned as far the song is concerned.

The blood a hero sire hath spent Still nerves a hero son.
being killed or wounded "for the empire" is meant to encourage others to come forward and go into battle "for the empire".

It's a song/hymn which is often sung with a great deal of gusto (maybe a spot of alchohol, too), and may rival "Jerusalem" for "popularity" in a certain sector of british society.

I think that the WW2 prime minister Winston Churchill (later "Sir") would invoke the same ideas as he sought to "rev" people up after, say, the Dunkerque, France (Dunkirk) humiliation/rout/fiasco/defeat.
@IrishBoy123