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‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling demonstrates the imperialist mindset popular in the poet’s time. The poem addresses white men, who the speaker describes as superior. The speaker tells them it’s their responsibility to travel to the Philippines (although the location is never explicitly stated).
The White Man’s Burden Lyrics. 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...
Sep 5, 2023 · Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is an 1899 poem about the imperialistic duty of the United States to colonize and serve the people of the Philippines. The speaker urges the...
“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.
In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations.
In November 1898, Rudyard Kipling sent his poem "The White Man's Burden" to his friend Theodore Roosevelt, who had just been elected Governor of New York. 1 Kipling's aim was to encourage the American government to take over the Philippines, one of the territorial prizes of the Spanish-American War, and rule it with the same energy, honor, and b...
By Rudyard Kipling. 1 Take up the White Man's burden-- 2 Send forth the best ye breed-- 3 Go, bind your sons to exile 4 To serve your captives' need; 5 To wait, in heavy harness 6 On fluttered folk and wild-- 7 Your new-caught sullen peoples, 8 Half devil and half child. 9 Take up the White Man's burden-- 10 In patience to abide, 11 To veil the ...
