Thursday, November 21, 2013
Response to Poems
I don't really think that these poems are like heart of darkness. It's written from an american view, which makes it more like Africa. It's actually kind of the opposite of Heart of Darkness because it's written from the colonized point of view. The only similar thing to Heart of Darkness is that it completely ignore's black people. As for Black Man's burden, I think that it was kind of unnecessary to make this poem. In the little explanation before the poem it talks about how it wasn't a good piece of poetry but I think it's unnecessary to respond to it like that. Obviously there are some people who think it's a good poem. It's just a matter of opinion.
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I'm not sure if you totally understood "The White Man's Burden." It was written by a British poet about the US takeover of the Philippines. Therefore it is actually written from the POV of the colonizer and is basically bemoaning the sacrifices that white men (Americans and Europeans) must make in order to civilize savages - those being colonized.
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