Central Idea

Linda Monk -- Constitution
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3336

http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewResourceLesson/Preview/50996

central idea and theme in poetry

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade
Charge of the Light Brigade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S93lvQ4Ukg8
History -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73IaK2zQk8

works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf00H5L8ZIw   recitation


The White Man's Burday -- Kipling
https://www.shmoop.com/white-mans-burden/poem-text.html
In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Published in the February, 1899 issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not everyone was as favorably impressed as Roosevelt. The racialized notion of the “White Man’s burden” became a euphemism for imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.


This famous poem, written by Britain's imperial poet, was a response to the American take over of the Phillipines after the Spanish-American War.

text and audio -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTPBjCrdpk  works if in


War is Kind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3w1c0cgZBI

https://www.shmoop.com/war-is-kind/

Dulce et Decorum Est
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
https://www.shmoop.com/dulce-et-decorum-est/summary.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4cdRgIcB8  CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON

IN FLANDERS FIELDS
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47380/in-flanders-fields

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKoJvHcMLfc  LEONARD COHEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3OGSGM0HOI  ABOUT THE POPPIES
A CALL TO arms from the dead
a call to keep fighting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GalJQY3PaQk