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The White's man burden - Coggle Diagram
The White's man burden
Analysis of the Text:
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lines 2-8:
metaphor of exil: whites drag non-whites like animals drag their burden.
alliteration of h remarks the weight.
modernity VS savagery
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lines 17-24:
paradox of peace difficult and violent.
personification of Sloth and Folly as demonic powers to fight
lines 25-32:
antithesis between old noble world (rule of kings) and new world (toil of serf and sweeper).
parallelism to emphasize selfless of the project
lineas 33-40:
ironic reward.
egyptian night allusion of superstition, ignorance and oppression VS enlightened, sophisticated and free soceties of greece and rome
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lineas 49-56:
no gratitude, true reward is the moral duty.
america grows up
light and darkness
bring non whites to the light of civilization.
devilish darkness VS angelic whiteness.
egiptyan night VS christian purity.
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