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"The White Man's Burden" (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) that exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.
1 Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.
May 13, 2011 · The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread, Go make them with your living, And mark them with your dead! Take up the White man's burden --. And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard --. The cry of hosts ye humour.
"The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Kipling revised it in 1899 to exhort the American people to conquer and rule the Philippines.
In this controversial poem, Rudyard Kipling taps into the imperialist mindset and what he, and others, saw as the “white man’s burden.” Read Poem PDF Guide
Take up the White Man's burden--No tawdry rule of kings, But toil of serf and sweeper--The tale of common things. The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread, Go mark them...
One of the most often quoted and most regularly misunderstood poems in the canon. It is helpful to read “The White Man’s Burden”, which has been used to condemn the form of imperialism that Kipling embraced, alongside his letter of 18 August 1898, to the American, George Cram Cook.
“The White Man’s Burden,” published in 1899 in McClure’s magazine, is one of Kipling’s most infamous poems. It has been lauded and reviled in equal measure and has come to stand as the major articulation of the Occident’s rapacious and all-encompassing imperialist ambitions in the Orient.
Take up the White Man's burden -- No tawdry rule of kings, But toil of serf and sweeper -- The tale of common things. The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread, Go make them with your living, And mark them with your dead!
1. Take up the White Man’s burden—. [10] In patience to abide, 2. To veil the threat of terror. And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, [15] To seek another’s profit.
