Poem Presentation

  In the class, we worked on the research on poems related to food. 

My partner and I did research on a poem called Thanksgiving, by Harriet Maxwell Converse. We chose this poem because it looked unique compared to other poems that we had to choose from. This poem was more of like a prayer, instead of a regular poem that we are familiar with. 

 

So, let's look at our research and analysis. 

This is the actual poem that we read.

This is the writer's information

Now, since we read a poem about Thanksgiving, 

we would like to give a little explanation about what it is. 

I thought Thanksgiving was something that is celebrated in the United States, 

but I was surprised to hear that it is celebrated on various dates  

in different countries with a variety of meanings. 

In the poem, the word "Great Spirit" was mentioned many times so we did research on the relation between Great Spirit and Iroquois. It is because when we look at the right-hand corner of the piece, it says "Translated from a Traditional Iroquois prayer", 

so we thought there would be a connection between these two. 

Next, we will move on to an analysis of this poem

As it is mentioned on the slide, they used personification and Anaphora. 

As we read this piece, we noticed that this piece sounded 

similar to Genesis in the Bible, so we compared these two.

As it is mentioned in the slide, these two had many similarities.

Since this poem was more of like a prayer,

We compared it with other prayers in three different religions/beliefs.

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In conclusion, we noticed that there are many connections

 between food and religion. In many religions, food is considered to be something

 that god gave us, so we need to be thankful for what we have.