The White Man s Burden By William Wordsworth - 2469 Words

William Wordsworth once said, â€Å"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future† (â€Å"Classic†). Many poems are significant because of the writing that is portrayed for our pleasure using our emotions. Characters from different novels tend to have the same characteristics that poems have. Kipling’s poem, â€Å"The White Man’s Burden†, written and published in 1899, speaks about the power that one race has over another. The character Heathcliff from the novel, Wuthering Heights, depicts the characteristics shown throughout this poem. Kipling’s poem articulates superiority and responsibility by the use of language, form, and meter. The first eight lines explains how the colonizers are cast as victims. â€Å"To wait†, signifies only the patient one will be served. By waiting they are waiting like a waiter or a server. They are wearing a harness waiting to be told what they should do. â€Å"Half-devil and half-child†, is showing the inferiority between the â€Å"pure† Europeans. â€Å"Patience†, â€Å"veil the threat of terror†, â€Å"check the show of pride†, â€Å"open speech†, â€Å"simple†, â€Å"profit†, and â€Å"gain† are phrases of the whites of having to show restrai nt. â€Å"Gain†, gives a connotation of accusing satirically towards the non-Europeans. In other words, the Europeans believe that they are showing restraint and are able to â€Å"gain† by helping the â€Å"Half-devil†. This next stanzaShow MoreRelatedPre-Raphaelites: Realism Over Reynolds Essay2092 Words   |  9 Pages a group of seven men banded together secretly to create the â€Å"Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,† or â€Å"P.R.B.† (Whiteley 6). This group included: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828-1882), John Everett Millais (1829-1896), William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Thomas Woolner (1825-1892), William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919), James Collinson (1825-1881), and Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907). Though this movement lasted only a few years, these men pulled the art establishment away from the stagnant rulesRead MoreEssay Dichotomy in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry3663 Words   |  15 PagesDerry, Northern Ireland, nearly 30 miles n orthwest of Belfast (Buttel 180). â€Å"This landscape offered a definite sense of place and tradition, of habits that arose in a remote past and became a part of the local rhythm. Heaney has reflected that ‘Wordsworth was lucky and†¦I was lucky in having this kind of rich, archetypal subject matter†¦as part of growing up’† (Buttel 181). In both â€Å"The Strand at Lough Beg† and â€Å"A Postcard from North Antrim† there is evidence of Heaney’s early agrarian life on