On Thursday in class, we read three separate but related poems. The first poem we read was also the first one written of the three. It was called "A White Man's Burden." It was talking about how it is the duty of the white man to take power and to carry out the idea of imperialism with all of their made-up justifications. It was a confusing poem and even after reading it a few times through, I could not really get a good handle of it. The same went for most of the class. The second and third poems we read were related and written as a sort of response to "A White Man's Burden." They were called "The Black Man's Burden" and "The Poor Man's Burden." They were parodies and shared many similarities with the first. Our jobs were to find the similarities and then write a found poem, which proved to be rather difficult.
On Friday we went to the computer lab and tried to make progress on our Smithsonian projects. It was a good end to the week.
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