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May 13, 2011 · On fluttered folk and wild --. Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's burden --. In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror. And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times mad plain.
‘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).
Take up the White Man's burden--In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain To seek another's profit,...
5 days ago · Themes: “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. Racial Superiority and the “Civilizing Mission”: The poem is steeped in the idea that Western nations are superior to non-Western cultures and have a moral obligation to “civilize” them. Lines like “Take up the White Man’s burden— / Send forth the best ye breed—” (1-2 ...
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.
Sep 5, 2023 · Dive deep into Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
