Question

why is poor Indian consider as ' untutor'd mind in the poem Essay on man by Alexander Pope?​

Answer 1

In vain thy Reason finer webs shall draw,

Entangle justice in her net of law,

And right, too rigid, harden into wrong,

Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Pope seems to envy her a little. He likes the natural connection  Indians have to their gods, "he sees God in the clouds or hears him in the wind". Imagine the  promised land of the Indians not in an afterlife, but embraced under the forest canopy.Believes Indians are blessed to be away from Christian/White greed.

• He likes the Indians' natural connection  to their gods, "he sees God in the clouds or hears him in the wind". Imagine the Promised Land of the Indians not in the afterlife, but embraced under the forest canopy. Believes Indians are blessed to be far from Christian/White greed.

 "Beyond the cloud-covered hill a humbler sky;

 A safer world deep in the embraced woods,

 A happier island in the watery desert,

 Where the slaves once again see their homeland,

 No demon homes, no gold-thirsty Christian!

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