... nation. The final shift of the poem occurs in line 75, in which the poet's tone becomes surprisingly optimistic. As the speaker contemplates the future, he arrives at the conclusion that Latin America will be restored, contrary to the melancholic lamentation in the past sixty lines. Praising the natural beauty of America with the imagery of "felicitous seas-(line 77) and "archipelagos-(line 79), the speaker employs the metaphor of a star to explain the changing fate of Latin America ... people to fight against oppression, but, perhaps, encourages economically and politically exploited p...

• Word Count: 954
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... imperialist nation at the end of the 19th century because Americans wanted to expand over seas with their belief in manifest destiny. The three factors that started American imperialism were political and military competition including the creation of a strong naval force, economic competition among industrial nations and a belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon decent. The Spanish American War marked the emergence of the United States as a world power. This ... brief war lasted less than four months from April 25 to August 12, 1898. A number of factors c...

• Word Count: 445
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate