Poem link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-h

Poem link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here
Your task for Essay 1 is to write a short academic essay in which you analyze a single literary text, identify the writer’s central idea, and develop an idea of your own in response to your reading of that primary text. For Essay 1, our focus will be on the social power of taste (as it is represented and expressed via literature and literary criticism). How does your selected literary text make an argument about taste? How does the publication and circulation of the text you select convey ideas about the concept of taste? To answer these questions, you will be asked to carefully analyze the text you choose in order to illuminate, critique, or refine its complex ideas. In addition, you may be invited to draw upon a second source to deepen your analysis of the primary text’s meaning and significance. Using these sources, you will write a brief essay that makes an argument about literary taste. Your final draft should be organized around a thesis that you have developed after considering the nuances of your chosen writer’s work; and remember, your ideas must be grounded in the initial text. Thus, in order to do this well, you must support your analysis with direct and substantial evidence from the text. (1,200-1,500 words)
1 Draft
“Perhaps” is the first word in the title of this poem which sets the mood of uncertainty and possibility about the idea of an end. The author sets a ground of thought then introduces a kitchen table where all of life revolves around. Joy Harjo began with “The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.”, in this poem the table is an ordinary object that symbolizes universal gathering and unity. The concept of this table being an imaginary object rather than an actual kitchen table is my own understanding of this lovely poem.
Body 1: I’ll talk about examples of emotional connection and growth around the table using evidence and relating this to my understanding.
Body 2: ill be talking about the growth with the inevitable death that awaits us.
Body 3: ill discuss the fruit basket of many struggles that are either talked about in the table or simply felt good to use the table as a type of a getaway from the real world
Body 4: my very own idea of what the kitchen table is. It’s basically the people that make the “table”. I can sit at a cafeteria table and eat dinner with randos but not have the beautiful interaction between them. So what i’m trying to say is that with the right people, no matter what food you are eating or place you’re at, it can be a beach or sitting on the ground or maybe an online video call, it is very much the people you consider family that radiate the beautiful but inevitable ideas from the poem about the table.