Both texts feature not only the natural unfairness of using laws or scale for the advantage of the strong but the truism of "Matthews Law" which effectively dictates that for those people who have a lot, more will come and for those who have little – they are the most likely to lose more. In both cases, the powerful people are becoming more powerful, and the systems being developed by them will structurally disenfranchise the people they are displacing. In "To Roosevelt", the poet starts to explore the theme using the words "you are the future invader" to identify America as the inevitable single power in the America’s. When he goes on to say "You think life is fire, that progress is eruption; where you put your bullet you put the future", Dario is building on the theme of the aggression that America is going to use to dominate. Dario is saying the values that Roosevelt represents is traditionalism and unchanging, rather than progressive and open-minded development. He is proposing that Roosevelt and therefore America sees violence as a tool of expansion. In "The Squatter and the Don" the theme emerges when it is clear that there is a supposed moral justification for displacing people with the words "all inside the law". This is making it clear that creating a legal structure that serves the powerful provides them with security from guilt for their actions. The further statement "in this easy way more land was taken from its legitimate owner". In this sentence it is clear that the author is maintaining that the legitimacy of residence is being successfully overtaken by legal action. This is further developed in the reference to this legal activity creating only tears, not blood as it would in the past through only violent action.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

a. it reminds protestors of the reasons they have to protest.

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