For about six minutes, Amanda Gorman performed her spoken word poetry during Joe Biden's presidential inauguration.

The poem contained references to works by Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, and Abraham Lincoln, writes Business insider.

In a Twitter conversation with the playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, she writes that she also referred to his hit musical Hamilton on two occasions.

Among Swedish literary scholars and poets, however, there are divided opinions about how successful the poem was.

Listen to Yolanda Bohm, Victor Malm and Ingrid Elam in the clip.