British poems

writing style by giving her the inspiration to write about imperialist India and the lives of Indian people. Desai was born on June 24, 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She grew up under the care of her mother who was German and her father who was Bengali (British…

The desire for his countrymen to be free, wanting equality, wanting freedom can be seen as liberal ideology during this time period and even now. An example of Equiano’s liberal standing would be in his letter responding to Samuel Jackson Pratt’s poem From Humanity; or the Rights of Nature. In this letter he quotes the biblical verse Isaiah 32.8, “The liberal devise liberal things, and by liberal things shall stand.” The word liberal means generosity, nobleness, being large-hearted, benevolent…

the nationalistic texts written by Ralph Waldo Emerson or Walt Whitman, American literature was not treated as independent tradition for a long time. Even in American schools when national authors were discussed they were always somehow fused with British ones until the end of the 19th century. Within the literature of The United States we can find a significant number of various influences such as Native American legends written down long after they were told, New England novels, African…

The British Empire at its capstone not only conquered vast amounts of land but in doing so also integrated their traditions as well. Items such as Sugar, Tea, Cotton, and other luxuries from foreign lands were established by the British and became British cultural symbols. These symbols were no longer associated with their native lands and thus became aspects of British Culture. Consequently, this gave rise to the need for an empire in order to maintain the newly integrated cultural ideals.…

White Man’s Burden,” a poem is written talking about how many white people believe that their cultural values or beliefs were superior to native peoples and so they are responsible to take care and educate them. They tried to civilize native peoples. This is an example of ethnocentrism. The author, Rudyard Kipling, must have this view because as a British poet he can see the way his kind of people try to civilize or change other people and it made him want to write a poem describing it. This is…

and independent, just like his father.When he was of age, he attended the British Royal Military College. While at college, he grew very distant of his parents, thus when he started to write emotional letters to his mom. This started his early passion to become a writer. After graduating top three of his class, and before ever thinking or going into politics, Winston Churchill served and worked as a writer for the British Military post. Years into his military career, and numerous amounts of…

Masculinity takes on a significant role in Imperial discourse as “the cornerstone in the ideology of moral imperialism that prevailed in British India” (Krishnaswamy 5). In setting up the masculine British man as morally superior to the weak and feminized native, the British nation is able to excuse its self-centered colonial missions. The colonial male occupies an interesting role as of the superior sex, but the lesser race (Krishnaswamy 55). Within Anna…

Fort-McHenry” and “was inspired by the British attack on the fort in Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812” (The Star-Spangled Banner, 2009). During this battle the English had invaded an American fort and Americans fought back. When the attack had ended and gun shots stopped, Francis Scott Key noticed that the American flag was still standing (The Star-Spangled Banner, 2009). Key saw this as a sign that American forces were still strong and thriving. After writing the poem it was published…

weak and needed the help of the superior countries. -white man’s burden: The White Man’s Burden was a play that was sarcastic but racist that said if you were white you had to dominate other countries to assist and improve them. Furthermore, the poem indicated that if you were white not only is it your duty to dominate another country but kill in the “savage wars”. -the Berlin Conference: The Berlin Conference was a meeting in 1884 with European nations to take claims on Africa, or…

just americans. The progressive era made progress in social equality, but pretense for much of our imperialism was to assist ‘uncivilized’ countries. Simply meaning countries where the citizens weren't white. “The White Man’s Burden” is a poem written by a british man that expresses the united states should go forth and aid in civilizing the rest of the world, because non white people can’t do so by themselves. And the united states did take control of many countries in the pacific islands. They…