Thankgiving Poem
In honor of Thanksgiving, I wrote this poem. It is a song, made up of many couplets. It is easy to remember to be thankful for the positive things, but this reminds us to also be thankful for the things that did not go as planned, because that is how we learn and grow. "Magic words" is a reference to "please" and "thank you". "The pen is mightier than the sword" is an old saying meaning that words can solve problems that violence cannot, and with less harmful effects. Because that saying is a metaphor, the next line shows gratitude for metaphors. The femme fatale, ingénue, and protagonist are types of characters used in story telling. So, this is showing thanks for stories and literature. Der Blaue Reiter is a group of artists from the early 1900s who united under philosophies surrounding art. It included artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc,