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                                          The White Mans Burden

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                                          The White Mans Burden

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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. Published in the February, 1899 issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not everyone was as favorably impressed as Roosevelt. The racialized notion of the “White Man’s burden” became a euphemism for imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.

1 Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need

5 To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

Take up the White Man’s burden

10 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

15 To seek another’s profit

And work another’s gain

Take up the White Man’s burden—

And reap his old reward:

The blame of those ye better

20 The hate of those ye guard—

The cry of hosts ye humour

(Ah slowly) to the light:

"Why brought ye us from bondage,

“Our loved Egyptian night?”

25 Take up the White Man’s burden-

Have done with childish days-

The lightly proffered laurel,

The easy, ungrudged praise.

Comes now, to search your manhood

30 Through all the thankless years,

Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,

The judgment of your peers!

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1) What is the white mans burden "Within The Poem? Summarize the speakers concept of this.

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1) What is the white mans burden "Within The Poem? Summarize the speakers concept of this.

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The "White Mans Burden" discusses imperialism, the Philippine American War, and the U.S. Senate ratification.

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2) How does the poem portray non-white peoples?

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2) How does the poem portray non-white peoples?

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This poem portrays non-white people as not equal, not as smart, and not as important as white people They are also portrayed as the enemy.

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3) What is the narrators attitude towards Empire and colonialism?

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3) What is the narrators attitude towards Empire and colonialism?

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He portrays the people/foreigners as the burden.

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4) How does this attitude compare with that of the narrator in Things fall apart?

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4) How does this attitude compare with that of the narrator in Things fall apart?

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In things fall apart this attitude is the same except it is flipped, the white men are the foreigners.

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5) How are the Europeans views of Africans and the Africans views of whites represented on the novel?

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5) How are the Europeans views of Africans and the Africans views of whites represented on the novel?

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The Europeans thought they were helping Africa by dividing them up but the Africans knew it wasn't right and thought they were doing it on purpose.

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6) How is "Things fall apart" a response to and revision of the view of non-white people as represented in " The White Mans Burden"

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6) How is "Things fall apart" a response to and revision of the view of non-white people as represented in " The White Mans Burden"

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In the white mans burden the burden is the foreigners, and in Things Fall Apart it is the same except we see it from the others point of view. So in their point of view the white men are the foreigners and burden to the black people.