Answer: D. His poem was written to criticize imperialist practices and as a negative response to Kipling's poem.
The poem was written as a negative response to Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden." In this poem, Kipling argues that the white race has the responsibility of educating, and bringing civilization, to other less advanced people. Kipling thinks this is why imperialism is also a "burden" for the colonizers. H. T. Johnson disagrees with Kipling's view, and asks imperialists to stop trying to solve other countries' "problems" and instead leave them alone.
Answer:
Since there is nothing underlined, I will identify the part of speech for every word.
Dolley - proper noun
Madison - proper noun
the - definite article
wife - common noun, singular, countable
of - preposition
the - definite article
fourth - adjective
United States - proper noun
president - common noun, singular, countable
is - present form of the auxiliary verb to be in third person
one - cardinal number
of - preposition
history`s - abstract noun, singular, countable (possessive form - Saxon genitive)
many - adjective
interesting - adjective
women - common noun, plural, countable
The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is an elegy in name but not in form. The whole style and theme of the poem is like of that contemporary odes. It also embodies the meditation on death and as well as the remembrance of death. The trees, beetles, flower, pastures are talking about life. These dispel the word "grave" from mentioning it. Sunset, on the other hand, symbolizes the end
Explanation:
The most obvious and important theme of the poem is 'death'.
The poem starts with varied types of imaging that continue until the fourth textual matter wherever grey mentions the graves for the first<span> time.
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All the imaging<span> describing the atmosphere </span>and also the setting<span> of the waning day, symbolize the transient nature of life and </span>additional<span> the stanzas emphasize </span>foregone conclusion<span> and </span>duration<span> of death.</span>
<span>So the poem's tone is of gloom and </span>disappointment<span> with the Epitaph of the speaker at </span>the top<span>, adding to the mundane </span>feeling<span> of the </span>poem<span>.</span>
