As a blog comment write a response to the "Poetry and Politics: White Man's Burden and other poems." See blog assignment below!
POETRY AND POLITICS: WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
After reading and discussing Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem "White Man's Burden" in class, read the three poems selected that were written as a response to this controversial (although widely popular) poem from the turn of the 20th century. They include Gaskin’s “What is the White Man’s Burden?”, J. Dallas Bowser’s “Take Up the Black Man’s Burden” and Anna Manning Comfort’s “Home Burdens of Uncle Sam.” You can find them on pages 38-41 of TRB from the Choices Unit “Beyond Manifest Destiny: America Enters Imperialism.” If you lost your handouts, please either go to the Library on Edmodo or on the IB part of the website and download the Choices Unit as a PDF file and see pages 106-110 in the PDF file.
Once you have completed the readings, blog a 200 word minimum response to those poems. Please take into account the historical and theoretical context of these poems. What do all of these poems (“White Man’s Burden” and the various responses to it) teach us about the United States, US History, US at the turn of the 20th Century, American values, and why do they or the values they embody matter? What are the implications of these values on US culture, history, foreign policy, etc.? In your blog you may discuss different political issues or historical events these poems apply to, you may formulate an insightful question about these poems or one of the poems in particular and then attempt to answer your own question. You may also respond to another student’s post, building upon it, disagreeing with it or re-thinking it.
A few basic Blog rules:
1. Be respectful.
2. Please type your full name, a creative title, and the page numbers or chapter your blog entry is responding to on the top line of your comment. This will help us keep track of who is responding to what.
3. You may write in the first-person, informally. That being said, please write in complete sentences and keep your comments relevant and appropriate.
4. 200 word MINIMUM!
POETRY AND POLITICS: WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
After reading and discussing Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem "White Man's Burden" in class, read the three poems selected that were written as a response to this controversial (although widely popular) poem from the turn of the 20th century. They include Gaskin’s “What is the White Man’s Burden?”, J. Dallas Bowser’s “Take Up the Black Man’s Burden” and Anna Manning Comfort’s “Home Burdens of Uncle Sam.” You can find them on pages 38-41 of TRB from the Choices Unit “Beyond Manifest Destiny: America Enters Imperialism.” If you lost your handouts, please either go to the Library on Edmodo or on the IB part of the website and download the Choices Unit as a PDF file and see pages 106-110 in the PDF file.
Once you have completed the readings, blog a 200 word minimum response to those poems. Please take into account the historical and theoretical context of these poems. What do all of these poems (“White Man’s Burden” and the various responses to it) teach us about the United States, US History, US at the turn of the 20th Century, American values, and why do they or the values they embody matter? What are the implications of these values on US culture, history, foreign policy, etc.? In your blog you may discuss different political issues or historical events these poems apply to, you may formulate an insightful question about these poems or one of the poems in particular and then attempt to answer your own question. You may also respond to another student’s post, building upon it, disagreeing with it or re-thinking it.
A few basic Blog rules:
1. Be respectful.
2. Please type your full name, a creative title, and the page numbers or chapter your blog entry is responding to on the top line of your comment. This will help us keep track of who is responding to what.
3. You may write in the first-person, informally. That being said, please write in complete sentences and keep your comments relevant and appropriate.
4. 200 word MINIMUM!
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