Religious and Cultural Values in Douglass Mac Arthur's Poem and Its Translation

摘要

"A father's prayer" is a poem written by General Douglas MacArthur used by Andrie Wongso motivate people. Our research was to describe the differences of religious and cultural values based on the language use. These differences were based on discourse analysis using Systemic Functional Grammar. This study is a Descriptive qualitative research. The data was collected by using observation method and documentation technique. Writers found facts that at least there were two big differences between the poem in English and in Indonesian caused by the religious and cultural values.