The Importance Of Imperialism In Literature

United States, a time called the Meiji Period caused newly learned ideas to change the Japanese

Now the second short story was called "The Real White Man's Burden." Ernest Crosby wrote it. He wrote it mainly in a response to Kipling's poem. Ernest Crosby was an anti-imperialist and he used it to remove the idea of racialism from the poem. He expressed the situation of imperialism in different countries in words so that people could understand where he was coming from. He wanted to make a point on how one man cannot do everything and how you should treat others as you would like to be treated with no influence with gender or race involved.

In the first Chapter 1 of Face of Imperialism by Dr. Michael Parenti, The author shows us how we are made to think a certain way about a situation due to view points of others and see how they can be beneficial in different situations since it allows us to take a second look a the information presented so we can show people the real facts of what is happening instead of simply disregarding it. We are forced to believe the small amount of info given as reliable and we have never started to question the other side of the issue so we are only focused on accepting the one side of the story we are given as a complete fact. People have had issues with this in many ways like the unanswered questions of 9/11, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

The two readings of the “White man’s burden” and the “Black man’s burden” are two pieces of that and pretty much just arguing each others point that was made in each of them.But the two reading do both show how the idea of imperialism was shown and how certain groups of people reacted to

In contrasting or comparing literary works it is crucial that the reader analyze the author's voice to gain a better understanding of the theme they are implying. In the contrast between the poems “I, too, sing America” by Langston Hughes, and “I hear America singing” by Walt Whitman it is clear that the two poets have very different point of views regarding American patriotism. Walt Whitman’s views on America’s joy and peace in his poems are very straightforward, while Langston Hughes poem--a response to Whitman’s--wants the reader to acknowledge what America should be like for everyone, including people of color such as himself. The authors of these poems prove to have conflicting judgements on matters in America including a theme of

Whitman and Hughes use their poems to share their point of view on America with their readers. Whitman's poem portrays a unified America. He incorporates people from all areas of life and all professions to show how they work together to make up America. Per Whitman, everyone is apart of making America what it is. On the other hand, Hughes uses his poem to show the discrimination and segregation in our country. He shows the reader how it feels to be ignored by a unified group of people, even though Walt Whitman and Langton Hughes are both literary forerunners in their own eras, Langston Hughes provides a duality to his verse by presenting the "disjointed" black perspective to the national conversation.

During the time of imperialism the smaller countries were used more just as a way of competing with other countries to see who could get the most resources and land one place this happened was in china everyone was fighting over land, this was later ended by the open door policy. This was the time when each country showcased how much power they had. Start of seeing the racial difference, the different cultures saw how each other lived it was the principle of because you aren’t like me you are less than me. most places America took followed different rules than those of America. In most of the articles and in the poem it refers to the foreign natives as untamed, and irresponsible. They were treated as animals or just things that could be put to use for no cost. That would have helped their economy. Imperialism wasn’t much of helping people that might have needed it but was more of a business competing for the most wealth.

For a long time, poems and books have been written as a way of expressing feelings, telling stories and criticizing problems of the society or the world in general. In the three poems that I will be analyzing we can see all of those. They were written by really talented American poets. For the first one, Gary Soto, a 64 years old, white, Californian man, who had a great formation and success with his poems. Langston Hughes, the author for the other two pieces, was born in Missouri and died when he was 65 in New York. He portrayed the black life in America and was one of the leaders of Harlem

The White man’s Burden edifies readers who are not familiar to Kipling’s imperialistic ideology. The poem was written and sent to Theodore Roosevelt in 1898 when America

Imperialism is a major part of world history. It has created borders, wars, and nations with its ideas and actions but many people do not know what it was or how it shaped the modern world. It also brought a darker side of humanity that crushed many lives and cultures. So what is imperialism, why did it make people inhumane, and what is its impact on world history.

Poetry has the power to teach people new things and change their perspectives on life. When authors realize the power of their poetry it is a revolutionary thing because they are then able to teach people through their poetry. In many poems the reader is able to get a sense of the culture that the author grew up in. This teaches people a lot about the past and about what people in the past had to face. When America was young nation slavery was a common thing. People were brought over from Africa and forced to do labor on plantations in the south. There was a whole population of people in the United States that was mistreated and honestly did not belong anywhere. They were not considered citizens of the U.S. and this created a huge problem

Another one of the forces that pushed new imperialism on were political forces. Nationalism, the love for one’s country and the thought that all other countries were inferior to yours, was one of these reasons. As said by Raymond Aron, the countries were motivated into the new imperialism for national glory, which was something that they wanted for themselves. They took over this land because they saw it as a way to grow their Empires around the world. An example of this was the British Empire, as they took over much of Africa, even though they already had the biggest Empire in the world, because they saw it as a way to have an even greater empire. In addition to this, there was the idea of the people in the Empires being the purest people in the world. Cecil Rhodes stated that the people in the British Empire were the absolute best people in the world. This pushed countries to take over more land, as it added people to their Empires. These added people created more of what they thought of as the “pure race”, and that just added to the nationalism that was already occurring. This and nationalism were a part of each other, as the idea that only people from your country were the best pretty much sums up nationalism. Adding to this, they took this as a way to gain land. Even though some of the countries participating in imperialism had big empires, some of them only had their own country. They took the opportunity to add to their land, and they did just that. They invaded easy to conquer areas and gained new land for themselves mainly in Africa, where the land was easier to get. They eventually gained enough land to be considered Empires, and this all came from imperialism.

     In one of his most famous poems, Rudyard Kipling said, "Take up the white man's burden!" (146). He was only one of many who believed in the virtues of imperialism in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. During that period, imperialism was on the rise, and Africa was being swallowed up by competing European nations. The imperialists had many arguments supporting imperialism. They said it was beneficial and, in some cases, essential. Their arguments did not satisfy everyone, but that did not bother them. The justifications ranged from economics to social services, while touching on everything else in between (Hayes 222-3).

Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem “The White Man’s Burden” epitomizes the European man’s view on imperialism, Euro-centrism and social Darwinism. Four centuries before 1899, such ideas were briefly hinted in the letter from Christopher Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, however by 1899 these attitudes strengthened and developed fully into their complete meaning. The U.S and Europe’s imperialism in the nineteenth century were the most influential ever in the history of human civilization. The immense motive for imperialism came from social factors including religion and Social Darwinism.

Imperialism and its oppressive processes have affected societies as well as individual lives for centuries. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, oppression through imperialism demonstrates how a certain civilization, the Congolese, is affected negatively by imperialism. By focusing on Africa, it allows for a graphic recount of the many years spent reigned by foreign oppressors and tyrannies. In Heart of Darkness, the Congo is oppressed by the imperialists economically and geographically. As well, the oppressed people are taken advantage of spiritually. Conrad describes how the ruling tyrant is affected by the process of conquering a local people and this draws a parallel to the ruling empire. Conrad, through his novel, attempts to