Compare And Contrast Perishing Republic And Thanksgiving

Impending Doom: Embrace or Escape? Both Thanksgiving by Jon Loomis and Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers forecast impending doom. In Thanksgiving the imminent doom for the Wampanoag Native American group is the invasion of their land by the Puritan English settlers. While in Shine, Perishing Republic, America is destined to collapse on its corrupt and overly empire-like foundation. Both of these poems engage with the topic of impending doom, through detailing the subject’s level of ignorance, offering disaster combating advice and providing a description of what is being done as the storm of doom is brewing. In the beginning of Thanksgiving the Wampanoag are said to have been unable to posses the ability to imagine that the coming of the white men would have resulted in the complete loss of their land and civilization. The speaker says
“There are times when the future lies open before us, plain as a roadmap: this is what’s next, and then this. It wasn’t one of those time” (5-7). The Wampanoag then sit down to have the typical mashed potato, turkey and gravy dinner with the White Men. This dinner, however is not one of ignorance, it shows a stoic resignation and acceptance of …show more content…
In Thanksgiving the Wampanoag Native American group has accepted their fate and decided to feast with the Puritans who will take over their land. In Shine, Perishing Republic, America is destined to collapse on its corrupt and overly empire-like foundation, unbeknownst to the Americans carrying on with their lives as normal. Intertwined with imminent doom is inevitable change. These two poems represent different points in the time course of coming to terms with the inevitability of change . While Americans in Shine, Perishing Republic have not yet accepted their problem in order to make a change, the Wampanoag in Thanksgiving have come to terms with and accepted that change in