“Praise Song for a Day” is written by Elizabeth Alexander, Alexander attempts to touch upon a sensitive and significant subject through the use of a poem. In her poem, she reflects the challenges that the American society faces today. She describes how our ancestors struggled to create what our country is now. The challenge that America faces is the inability to improve our society. We are challenged to continue to expand what our ancestors fought for and to preserve the changes made. The author expresses the idea that our ancestors and slaves worked very hard into creating what our country is now. She describes that our ancestors and history is still being talked about and touched upon in our everyday lives. She mentions in lines 1-6 that
