Checking Your Understanding: Applying Cultural Criticism
Cultural criticism examines how different religions, ethnicities, class identifications, political
beliefs, and individual viewpoints affect the ways in which texts are created and interpreted. Cultural Criticism suggests that being a part of-or excluded from a specific group or culture
contributes to and affects our understanding of texts.
a) How does this poem reveal the attitudes and behaviors of a dominant culture?
b) How does it portray the culture of those who are being conquered or oppressed?
c) How has your own culture influenced how you perceive and interpret this poem?
d) Do you sympathize with the white man?
e) Is there any truth to the claim that imperialism imposes a burden on those who engage in
it? (THE POEM IS CALLED 'THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN')
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English, 21.06.2019 22:40, jaidyn3mccoy6
What central idea does this passage develop? the impact of fate the integrity of leaders the ruthlessness of power the importance of friendship
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English, 22.06.2019 07:00, naomicervero
A. to transition the reader smoothly from one idea or moment intime to the nextob. to grab readers' attention and get them interested in the essay'smain topicc. to provide more supporting details about the essay's main ideasor topicod. to sum up the overall point of the essay and make a lastingimpression
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English, 22.06.2019 08:10, Serenitybella
Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: how is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue? the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences. the narrator is able to see into two character's heads. the narrator is addressing the audience directly. the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic
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