British poems

from the latin neglegere, literally meaning "not to pick up something.” In this scenario what the British Empire weren’t picking up was the welfare of the Irish people, something that seemed like a straightforward responsibility given the trouble they went through to reign in Ireland and establish the Act of Union in 1800. An example of this is shown clearly in Paddy’s Lament describing the British extraction of food and supplies from Ireland made by Irish people during 1847, the most brutal…

With this sense of superiority and right to lead as ordained by nature and God upon the British people, Victorian writers produced literary texts and essays promoting it. Scholars like Mathew Arnold, Benjamin Disraeli, Sarah Austin were at the front-burner of eulogizing the Englishness and the British race superiority. Arnold, in his Common Place book according to Evans Richard, states that the British "are the best breed in the world … The absence of a too enervating climate, too unclouded…

This act places taxes on imported glass, tea, lead, paper, and paint. The money being raised from this act would help pay for the war debt. British Officials used writs of assistance to basically enforce this act. Colonist hated this act because they felt as if it violated their constitutional rights. Therefore, colonist decided to boycott on British goods AGAIN! They hoped this actually got Parliament's attention. This led to Samuel Adams writing a letter saying that the acts were actually…

During the American Revolution many slaves were denied the opportunity to learn to read and write. One of the Early American authors, Phillis Wheatley, was able to use her literacy to write many poems and well-known pieces of literature even though she was a slave. Purchased by the Wheatley family at a young age, Wheatley was able to become educated and eventually start writing her own poetry. She had many influences and viewpoints that were shown in her writing, such as the influence of her…

against the British is due to the British interfering with trade on the high seas, unexpected Indian attacks on the frontier,…

Hausa woman of Nigeria wrote, “they would stop oppression and lawlessness, we would live at peace with them...everyone at Karo ran away-- `There’s a European, there’s a European!” In this specific excerpt we are given an intimate glimpse into the British Arrival. Africans were being fed tiny spoonful of lies, but they still ran for their lives in hopes of finding their own freedom. Also, in a personal account by Ndansi Kumalo, he writes, “ We surrender to the white people and were told to go…

eye-catching way. The cartoons mentioned earlier all emphasise the power of Britain and the ‘savagery’ of the rebels, (figure XX, XX, XX, XX) and/or present the metropolis as a righteous nation who is wronged by colonial protestors and their unpatriotic British supporters (figure XX, XX). Visuals are more striking than texts, usually rather easy to understand at one glance, and therefore more efficient in provoking reactions. This is why cartoons play on an emotional dimension – the suffering of…

discursive struggle with idealist philanthropists who simply did not understand the politics and pressures that were involved in colonial matters’ (86). The ignorance of the members of the Committee is emphasised when one of them makes a mistake about British history. (“Chronology in Clerkenwell”) A comrade corrects him but only makes the slip worse by mixing up dates. Punch ironically points out how this incident is ‘a gratifying proof of the progress which education has made among the masses.’…

labor. In response to Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden”, H.T. Johnson wrote “The Black Man’s Burden” in this poem he says that Americans are done with the “red man’s problem” and are trying to fix the “brown man’s problems”. He says, “Hail ye your fearless armies, Which menace feeble folks” (Johnson, 5-6), he is calling Americans bullies. Imperialism spread the disease of slavery.…

While the British Isles fell under the realms of the Christian Church, this did not mean that its practices perfectly mirrored that of the continent. In actuality, the people within the region adapted their religious practices, making it local and idiosyncratic. Much of the previous narrative of the pre-Norman, Christian religion in England related to the necessity of proving that the Anglo-Saxon’s were deficient in their religious practices. As the Norman conquest was frequently framed as one…