British poems

North. It was a cultural blast that took place in New York during the 1920s and '30s. The African Americans used their art to prove their humanity and demand for equality. One of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes. In his poem called…

George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India in 1903 during the time when the country was under British colonial rule. He moved to England when he was very young, but being born in India during such a hard time for India caused him family many issues so he grew up with a less than satisfactory childhood. His place of birth might explain why he kept England as itself in 1984 when he gave all the other countries different names for the new dystopian world he created. He…

The Easter Rising began on Easter Monday, 24th of April 1916, and lasted for six days. The Easter Rising was an insurrection against British rule in Ireland and took place in Ireland's capital city, Dublin. The Easter Rising of 1916 is believed to be the most compelling single event in modern Irish history. The number of plays, novels and poems centred around the Easter Rising are endless. For the purpose of this essay I will discuss how the Easter Rising is represented in both Sean O' Casey's…

Portrayal of Bengali Renaissance in Satyajit Ray’s films Western education / Modern ideas (Mahanagar, Devi) The liberal ideas of the West played a crucial role in the awakening of Bengal. Modern ideas substituted the age old customs and it began with the establishment of Brahmo Samaj and spread of English education. The concepts and ideas from the West forced the educated youth to think in a rational manner and they started despising everything that is traditional. In this concern, the historian…

I remember the instigation of this diasporas reading. It is Zadie Smith, who I consider the pioneer of the Bengali Diaspora literature! Yes, I know it 's an unreasonable approach, considering someone the pioneer, who isn 't a Bengali, rather a British, (I decided not to go for her any other background) who overrode this specific notion, her inclusion…

Victorian Period poetry was Alfred, Lord Tennyson. While, his main subject was romantic, his poetry was filled by personal melancholy and a mixture of social certitude and religious doubt that reflected the age. Writers from the United States and the British colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada were guided by the literature. Alice Adventure’s in Wonderland written by Lewis Carrol. I choose Alice Adventures’s in Wonderland because I liked the fact that she writted this novel with a…

Olaudah Equiano was a famous African in London who had supported the British movement to end slave trading. Olaudah is known for his famous 1789 autobiography, which described his experience as a slave. The autobiography, The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, goes into detail of his experience of when he was kidnapped and sold to slave traders. Olaudah was one of millions of Africans who were taken from his homeland and sold into slavery.…

They hoped this would eliminate Britain from gaining too much authority against the colonies. This may have worked for some time, but British had a war to pay for and started to tax the colonies to pay their debt off. They started passing acts to increase tax on the colonies. This caused a change of opinion the leaders of the colonies to change their opinion. The British had forced them to completely change their direction for government in twenty years. To help…

everyone and that without Britain the colonies would be too weak to survive on their own. Additionally loyalists concluded that because they were British subjects that were obligated to obey British laws and pay British taxes. Loyalists were of the opinion that because the colonies were so far away from Britain it would be impractical to have representation in British parliament. On the other hand, patriots believed that because they didn’t have representation in parliament that shouldn’t be…

own kind. Soon to become nations of their own. The amplified event, trial, and article of the Boston Massacre have unquestionably been some of the most influential causes of American Revolution due to it being the first bloody contact between the British and the Colonists along with explicitness of the trials and the propaganda based articles. There were many instantaneous tensions that arose between the colonies and Britain due to the bloody incident. Nearly 165 years since the first…