Question

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote, "These men were castaways upon our shore, and we, an ignorant and savage tribe, have put them to death because their speech and their manners were different from our own, and because to the untutored mind that which is strange is in its infancy ludicrous, but in its prime evil, dangerous, and to be done away with."


Reflect on what she meant by this. Do you agree or disagree with her sentiment about American society? Does this apply in any way to today?

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Answer:

These men were castaways upon our shore, and we, an ignorant and savage tribe, have put them to death because their speech and their manners were different from our own, and because to the untutored mind that which is strange is in its infancy ludicrous, but in its prime evil, dangerous, and to be done away with.