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A question I have about this is "What was the white man doing, and where was he headed?"

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Why is the use of repetition important?

The author describes the colonists as people who come to a new place and tease/make fun of those Natives who are different than them. It repeats the words 'you laughed' over and over with different things each time like their dancing or how they walk.

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What is the author referring as the 'Cathedral of Doom'?

The message of this poem is that colonists are coming and destroying the Native land. It tells us they sent people to cut the tree that provided so much to them, and replaced it with the 'cathedral of doom'.

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What is the importance of the author telling the audience what the village was like before white men, and what temps. were?

This poem describes the Native people of Africa as hard working and persistent. It describes the conditions they worked in as being hot and having lots of mosquitos. It also informs us that the sun was 'fierce and scorching'.

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Why would the author say, "Go bind your sons to exile"? What is he wanting us to get from this piece?

The message if this poem is that the Natives were people enslaved in their own country. They have to everything the white man doesn't want or refuses to do.

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When the surveyors built the cathedral, did they know what the land meant to the natives? Did they care?

In the poem the author reveals the single story of the natives point of view about the land. It does not show any acknowledgment of the point of view from the surveyors.

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Why does the author choose to repeat the phrase "and you laughed and laughed and laughed?"

The author describes the colonialists as racist people who make fun of people who were different.

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What is the poem comparing to life today?

"They laughed and laughed and laughed" because those people they laughed at were different and because of that people questioned themselves and the way they looked because "They laughed and laughed and laughed".

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What is the poem trying to tell me?

The poem is saying that people run out the natives in order to build and pollute a good area of land.

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What is the poem about?

The poem details the struggles of africans and how they survived and those who helped them survive.

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When the author says "they sent surveyors and builders" who are the people sending surveyors and builders?

The author describes the colonialists as people who cause destruction.

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What does repetition do in this poem?

Repetition in this poem basically further implies mocking from White people with each repeat.
A question I have myself to give is "What could be the reason for each person's laughter?"

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Based on your reading of the poem, what is the poet’s motivation/purpose in writing this poem?

The poet's purpose is to show that something that the African community cherished was torn down and replaced by White Man's culture.
Another question I had in mind was "what was lost after the cathedral was made?"

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From what perspective is the poem written?

The poem is written in the perspective of a researcher or some white man similar to such, who gets accepted into African society.

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was the reason the tribe let them in is because they were afraid of what they would do if they didn't?

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Why did the author always choose to start with your laughter or end with you laughed, you laughed...

This poem tries to reveal that through culture and memories it brings a lot of laughter.

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What has the Ambassador as referred at the end of the poem done so bad to these people that they are willing to walk to death just to get away from him?

This poem describes the people of Africa as people who are very tough, and willing to go great distances to live the life that they want.

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How does it feel to be not laughed with, but laughed at? What are the lasting feelings that accompany systematic mistreatment?

SINGLE STORY: It's disconcerting to me, that we can ever justify laughing at another. That the pain from that type of treatment is never completely eradicated. Words leave marks on the soul. In this poem, I feel that the beauty of "my song" is perceived as noise. That an "ante-natal walk" can be described as "inhuman" or that one might "shut [their] eyes" to the "magic dance" of "talking drums pleading". So often, our Single Story of others limits our individual growth and development, leaving a residue of ignorance [on ourselves] which we so seldom notice. What have we missed by not appreciating diversity? And, it's in the "my turn" stanzas and that tone shift that I find optimism for all of us.

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Was this a metaphor for the mocking of African traditions and/or putting down everything they do just because they aren't "good enough" for the colonialists?

It shows the Native Africans getting put down for their taste of music, their dances, everything they like. They don't care though because they have the decency to when the colonialist were and still are at some points in need, they help them because they believe there is no difference, because everyone were created equal in their eyes.

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who was laughing?

the white people were laughing at the africans for their customs

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Does the author try to keep relating everything back to temperature?

The colonist are described as the leader because it says "they, bound for a kingdom," and "Its Khaki leader in front."

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Why is it a Cathedral of Doom?

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Why is the writer so arrogant about being "one with nature" he's almost rubbing it into their face even though that is what they were brought up into and he was brought up into more tribal life. We learn from our parents and usually don't go outside of what we know.

What does this tell of a single story.?
It tells that this is the only white man or more educated man that he has met and hold that one story because he was laughed at by them even though not every white/educated man would laugh at him.

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In the poem the phrase, "In your ears my song is motor car misfiring stopping with a choking cough," what does it mean?

The poem describes how Native Africans sing a lot, but they are sick due to poor living conditions.

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Why did they choose that certain place for a cathedral where they could have picked anywhere else?

In this it shows the Natives as people who are trustworthy, helpful and compassionate towards those whom they have never met before because they just look in need.

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How does one "plant" a cathedral? Why is the word "doom" used?

NATIVE PEOPLES: I think the mood of this poem, being despondent, describes the peoples. It reminds me of the scenes in Dancing With Wolves when the tribe leaves to avoid the encroaching soldiers. The only beauty in the poem seems to be "brightened by the last fires of a tribe" and makes me think that flame is being extinguished. How many times in history have the native peoples been displaced and eliminated to make way for those would would "[plant] in its place" their own culture?

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"who cut that tree" they are talking about whitesmoving in and taking land

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Why does the author include what the village and it's people were like as the Europeans arrived?

The author portrays the colonialists as weak and in need of help and the Africans as strong and welcoming.

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What is "No tawdry rule of kings"

This is bad treatment of people in higher power and class to the people in lower power and class.

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"He the light of hope" they are talking about someone who has changed their lifestyle whom they look up too, like what Pee kay did

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What does the author mean by "cathedral of doom"  because when I hear doom I think bad.

The primary message of this poem is that people tore down things that the Native people had pride in.

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When the author says "brightened by the last fires of a tribe" is the tribe a long time ago or was it more recent?

How does this poem decribe colonists?
It describes them as people who don't care about nature and build dark doom-bringing buildings.

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Why does the poem call a cathedral, "The cathedral of doom"?

The poem describes the cathedral this way because it takes away natural land.

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What does "No tawdry rule of kings" mean?

This explains how the native africans have to do everything the white men didn't want to do.

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Why does these people call it the cathedral of doom?

it describes the cathedral and the problems it brings

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Why did the author choose to end all of the paragraphs with "and laughed and laughed and laughed"?

The primary message of this poem is that no matter what the Native Africans did they were laughed at and judged for.

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What does the author mean when he puts laughter into his poem?

When talking about laughter, the author writes about how the natives laughter is fire and has a purpose instead of just being cold and blocked.

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What does "The thin line of carries" mean in the poem?

In the poem it describes the line of Native Africans standing in line doing labor.

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What does the author mean by "shedding incense on the infant corn"?

This describes the colonialists as people who are changing things and destroying the things that the Native people had before they came.

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How different would this poem have read if the author didn't chose to be repetitive with word laugh?

The primary message of this poem is that no matter how the natives tried to live life they would always be made fun of doing so.

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Why does David Rubadiri keep talking about how it is so hot? Does that change the poem in anyway?

This explains the native africans as fighters who wouldn't quit for anything

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What drives the imperialists through Africa to meet Mutesa?

COLONIALISTS: Like the tone of "The White Man's Burden", the tone in stanza 5 of "Stanley meets Mutesa" seems to be one centered on those arriving, not those inhabiting. The speaker seems to lament that "No Singing women to chant a welcome/Or drums to greet the white ambassador" is at issue. There is a distant, distrustful tone here. Words like "peer" and "silent nods" show that distrust. So how do the native peoples evolve into "other"? Like it's they who don't belong or are interlopers?

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What does "To wait in a heavy harness" mean?

This line describes the Native Africans being used to carry weight of a white man's work.

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Does the author explain so many hardships to make them seem like Mutesa was a really great leader and one most generous.

How does the poem describe Native Africans?
It describes them as a very profitable and wealthy folk with happy, healthy lives and no real problems.

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Why did the author start the poem off with "Such a time of it they had"?

This poem describe the colonialists as basically the leaders. As the ones who get to control everything

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Why is it talking about a tree and where a tribe used to be as a tragedy for the cathedral being built?

When seeing the cathedral, you just see the building in front of you, but when you learn of what it used to be before, you build a new understanding and look for the building itself.

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Why did the author decide to use the same opening line in each stanza?

The message in this poem states that the people who live in Africa are half-devil and half-child. They aren't normal people and need to take on the burden from the white people.

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The author says cars a lot so does that mean that is the reason they have ice block laughter?

It takes about the problems of the single story that people laugh at.

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Was this to show that the native Africans were trustful people towards those who have nothing? To always help those who are in need?

It describes the colonialists as people with nothing trudging through the land seeing for hope, a land of opportunity.

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Why did the author chose to associate the lives of native africans to ''the cathedral?

The poem describes what the natives felt after being taken over completely from their way of life by the colonists.

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Why did he refer to the tree as a cathedral of doom?

This is about how everything can be ripped away from you without warning.

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Why did these natives welcome the White men with open arms but others didn't?

The poem describes the colonialists as hardworking and very easer to develop the world and see new lands. They use words like "hot and hungry", "the spirit that inspired", and "leapt on chanting." These words show that the people who were coming into the town (colonists) were eager to get there.

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What does the author mean by "No tawdry rule of kings"?

The poem describes the native people of Africa as working for the colonialists and the native Africans doing all of the work.

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The author says, "The blame of those ye better, the hate of those ye guard, the cry of hosts ye humour." What does the Author mean by ye? It kept on repeating itself throughout the story multiple times.

This poem describes the Native people as not having the same rights as white people. And they are describing getting judged and they're attempting to take up the Man's Burden.

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Why does the author refer to "the white mans burden?" The colonists are the ones who are taking away the lives of others under their own will. No one is making the colonists do anything and they call it a burden.

The poem describes the colonists as people who are burdened by colonization. It refers to them as being the unlucky ones or the ones that we should feel bad for.

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What did the ambassador do that made the village hide from him in fear?

This poem is showing how the natives who lived in the village had to work for the ambassador and carry him until he got to where he wanted to be.

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Why does author chose to key in specifically on what the temperature was outside or what they were wearing so much?

The poems describes the colonists as hard workers that endure anything to get to live they vitally want.

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What does the author mean by "judgement of your peers" in the last paragraph?

What is the primary Question of the poem?
I think the main message is to explain and talk about what happens when the white man comes to your lands and what his "burden" is.

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Did the Africans ever go into the 'cathedral of doom'?

The poem describes what it was like to be a native. They had everything taken from them and just saw more and more colonialists.

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"to seek anothers profit" is saying that the whites took everything from the africans.

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I'm wondering why this speaker seems to throw a pity party about the lack of those whom he seeks to colonize (stanza 5). Did he expect the native peoples to be happy about being overtaken?

COLONIALISTS -- The colonialist viewpoint/speaker seem to victimize imperialists, saying "Take up the White Man's burden --/have done with childish days/ . . . Comes now, to search your manhood/Through all the thankless years" as if they deserve gratitude.

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What does "to seek another's profit, and work another's gain" mean? Is it a reference to slavery?

The poem describes the Native Africans as in need and weak. "Fill the mouth of famine and bud the sickness cease."

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the author wrote "The savage wars of peace" was this to show that there are complexity of war and peace in Africa?

it describes the white man coming into africa.

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What does, "Go mark them with your living, And mark them with your dead" mean?

This poem describes the native people because they want freedom and not to be over powered by the "White men."

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Based on your reading of the poem, what is the poet’s motivation/purpose in writing this poem?

The poet’s purpose is to show that the supposed freedom the African people had was false.

Another question I have is
What kind of burdens did the black people have to take up?

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Why did he use the specific word laugh instead of mock?

The message of this poem is that no matter what he did people would laugh at him because of his skin color.

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Did this person ever stop laughing?

The poem reveals a single story by saying that this culture isn't something you can laugh at. At the end, they say that the laughter of the person being made fun of "thawed your insides." It also shows that the people who were laughing had an 'ice block laughter.'

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For these people having to do everything for the white man. who moved into their lands, why not just take their land back?

It describes the native Africans as nothing more that the ones cast out of society because they were not fit to live as equals.

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What was it that the white men brought with them that was so significant?

The poem describes the native people as people who fight famine, and also fight sickness to get to their goal.

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What is the significance of repetition throughout the piece?

The poem describes the native peoples of Africa as individuals who are heavily connected to nature and the earth.

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Why did the author choose to use the word "planting" instead of "building"?

The message of the poems is that the colonists tore down something that the native peoples of Africa revered and put something up that represented "doom" to them.

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Why does the author choose to associate light with the white men?

The poem describes the colonists as individuals who are sweating and working their way towards this new civilization.

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Was there not peace before the white men came? Did they really think there would be after they came?

The poem describes the native peoples of Africa as "Half-devil and half-child."