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2 Column Note-The History Lesson

The poem provides a historical perspective on the interactions between European settlers and indigenous peoples in North America. It depicts scenes of violence between the groups and references how the settlers unknowingly brought disease and destruction. While the Europeans viewed themselves as helping the "uncultured" natives, they ultimately devastated entire civilizations. The poem recaps Columbus' arrival from the viewpoint of indigenous peoples, portraying his exploration as an invasion that displaced them from their lands.

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2 Column Note-The History Lesson

The poem provides a historical perspective on the interactions between European settlers and indigenous peoples in North America. It depicts scenes of violence between the groups and references how the settlers unknowingly brought disease and destruction. While the Europeans viewed themselves as helping the "uncultured" natives, they ultimately devastated entire civilizations. The poem recaps Columbus' arrival from the viewpoint of indigenous peoples, portraying his exploration as an invasion that displaced them from their lands.

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2 Column Note-The History Lesson

Observation Interpretation

“Shooting buffalo Indicating something on random brutality and


Shooting each other violence.
left and right” (lines 5-7)

“Out of the belly of Christopher’s Christopher Columbus was a traveller. His


ship” (line 1) exploration of America prompted European
colonization.

“Pioneers and traders This is a case of verbal irony. It makes a reference


bring gifts that they are endowments, which is actually fake.
Smallpox, Seagrams The pioneers and traders brought on obscenities
and rice krispies” (lines 15-18) on one another most likely for an event or
misha[ that occurred before. I think "rice krispies" in
this context is not something edible, it’s something
that could potentially be harmful to someone.

“green paper faces Alluding to the $20 dollar bill, this is a case of a
of a smiling English lady” (lines delusion of knowing who and what they are
28-29) discussing-The British Monarchy.

“glimpsed in a garden A suggestion and a reiteration, it essentially mirrors


forever closed the loss of nature and greenery.
forever lost” (lines 45-47)

“Father mean well This sort of tone is called "Pigeon English". Early
waves his makeshift wand” Europeans addressed aboriginal people as though
(lines 8-9) they were basically babies and couldn't process the
genuine English language or use it productively.
Different things that come to mind are sarcasm,
assimilation, Catholicism and I think "Father"
signifies a priest.

“The colossi This depicts the tone, which is intense. There was
in which they trust” (lines 30-31) a hazardous circumstance that the Aboriginals and
Europeans were in which the poem is recounting
about the events that happened that day.

“Between the snap crackle pop Represents the damage done by nature and by the
of smoke stacks” (lines 21-22) pollution as a way to show the foundation of the
pilgrimage and invaded territory.

Armstrong wrote the poem It is the history among aboriginal and European
based on the aboriginal life settlers written in her perspective.
Punctuation: Some lines have I likewise noticed each time it begins another
surprising breakage and some sentence, the poem just used a capital letter
have a whole passage that goes instead of capital and period. For instance:
along well. In general, it all goes “Shooting buffalo
smoothly Shooting each other
left and right”

The setting between the The Aboriginal individuals were happy to share
Europeans and Aboriginals what they had with the Europeans, yet in the long
run, they had everything taken away. For example:
“ Out of the belly of Christopher’s ship
a mob bursts
Running in all direction” which demonstrates the
property of Aboriginal people being detracted from
them.

The overall theme The Europeans settlers in North America thought


they were cultured and that they were doing
something beneficial for "uncultured" Aboriginals,
but instead, they wound up devastating several
civilizations.

The poem represents a timeline Represents critical occasions that give us a brief
in history look at the past, uncovering what happened when
the European pioneers came and how they
contributed and cooperated with one another.
Likewise, it was told from the perspective of an
Aboriginal.

The entire poem recaps Retells Columbus' exploration of America from the
Colombus’ discovery point of view of Aboriginals. The poem depicts the
appearance of Columbus and his men as an attack
and an infringement on Native grounds. It taunts
the possibility of Europeans carrying progress to
America and declaring that it was they who found
the land.

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