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The White Man’s Burden – The Kipling Society. 1899. (The United States and the Philippine Islands) 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. 2 .
‘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).
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.
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 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...
Mar 4, 2021 · Kipling wrote “White Man’s Burden” as a response to the American takeover of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War in 1898. The phrase that forms the poem’s title and refrain, “White Man’s burden,” is a metaphor for the tremendous hardship and responsibility of carrying out effective and positive imperialism.
“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.
