In about 100 words, discuss two themes that are shared by both "The Indian Burying Ground" and "The Wild Honeysuckle" and that became popular literary themes during this time period and beyond.

Explanation:

The visitor of the Indian graveyard meditates upon the burying rites of the native Indian peoples; the primitivistic speaker is in the guise of a common man but he is challenging civilized burial customs of the Europeans. He says: "In spite of all that the learned have said / I still my opinion keep". This suggests that the speaker is refusing to accept what the so-called learned people say; he rejects rationalism in favor of mysticism. When civilized culture demands burying a corpse in a prone (sleeping) position, death is seen as an eternal 'sleep' for the soul. The speaker goes on to argue, his imagination becoming more active.

If readers consider antiquity of the American world, they contemplate America's primordial race of Indians, whose sitting posture in their graves suggests that their soul actively continues the simple pursuit of their former mortal lives as also depicted on their pottery and as indicated by their weapons. For example, an Indian arrow head or "head of stone", symbolizes the opposite of a European headstone (tombstone), namely, the enduring vitality of the dead person's spirit unlike the cold, engraved memorial for a dead white man.

The title of the poem "The Indian Burying Ground" is American in the sense it describes the American Indians tradition in burying a dead body. When Indians die they bury them in sitting position; they think that the dead are with life, in their own world. The poem is in ten regular stanzas with the rhyming scheme abab. The first half of the poem describes what happens in the burial ground and second half of the poem describes how to treat on burial ground. Poet, here, in fact is suggesting Americans not to ignore Indian burial. The learned Christian is more pedantic, and the learned Indian is more open. Poet sides with the Indians from the outset of the poem.

A new dimension of looking at life is introduced here. The posture we keep to our dead determines how we look at life after death. Death is not end but it is a release for life is seen as bondage. Choosing a typical American topic here Freneau is successful to create American flavor. American Indians believe in life as lasting or existing forever it is an ad infinitum process. The activities of man, in Indian concept, continue even after death. So dead are buried in a sitting posture and they are supposed to share "joyous feast' with the friends. The Indian concept of life after death is quite different from Christian concept that believes in an annual of earthly activities after death. The image of bird and painted bowl in the third stanza suggest the restless life of Indians after death; whereas, image of the bow and arrow shows remain of ideas after death. The poet has requested Americans who are quite unknown to the tradition to remain quiet and commit "no fraud upon the death".

Last few stanzas of the poem give a glimpse of the hunting nature of Indians. The attachment of the Indians with the forest is still the same as it was earlier. Poet, here, has tried to convey a message that the culture of American Indians is as significant as the culture of Christians. All the cultures do have significance in the world. And instead of frowning at something different, we should acknowledge the diversity- in people, in customs, in language, religion and culture.

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answer:   a good wench, give it me.

iago

good girl, give it to me.

emilia

what will you do with ’t, that you have been so earnest

325to have me filch it?

emilia

and what are you going to do with it? why did you want it so much that you begged me to steal it?

iago

  why, what is that to you?

iago

what’s it to you?

emilia

if it be not for some purpose of import,

give ’t me again. poor lady, she’ll run mad

when she shall lack it.

emilia

if you don’t need it for some important reason, then give it back to me. poor lady, she’ll go crazy when she sees it’s missing.

iago

be not acknown on ’t,

330i have use for it. go, leave me.

iago

don’t admit to knowing anything about it. i need it. now go, leave me.

exit emilia

emilia exits.

i will in cassio’s lodging lose this napkin

and let him find it. trifles light as air

are to the jealous confirmations strong

as proofs of holy writ. this may do something.

335the moor already changes with my poison.

dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons

which at the first are scarce found to distaste,

but with a little act upon the blood

burn like the mines of sulfur.

i’ll leave this handkerchief at cassio’s house and let him find it.to a jealous man, a meaningless little thing like this looks like absolute proof. this handkerchief may be useful to me. the moor’s mind has already become infected with my poisonous suggestions. ideas can be like poisons. at first they hardly even taste bad, but once they get into your blood they start burning like hot lava.

enter othello

othello enters.

    i did say so.

340look, where he comes. not poppy nor mandragora

nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,

shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

which thou owedst yesterday.

here he comes. no drugs or sleeping pills will ever give you the restful sleep that you had last night.

othello

    ha! ha! false to me?

othello

argh! she’s cheating on me?

iago

why, how now, general? no more of that.

iago

oh, general, , no more of that!

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