Comparing Kipling 'Poem The White Man's Burden'
In looking at Kipling’s poem White Man’s Burden and Johnson’s response poem Black Man’s Burden, one can find several contrasts and very few similarities in the perspectives of these two men and what they believed was our nation’s rights when it came to spreading Western culture and beliefs.
The white man’s burden and The black man’s burden are both different viewpoints of the ways of Imperialism, such as positive consequences ways and negative consequences. The poem by Kipling,"The White Man's Burden" addresses the American colonization of the Philippine Islands, conquered from Imperial Spain, in the Spanish–American War in 1898; the birth of the American Empire. “The white man’s burden” has a viewpoint of imperialism of “savages” countries, countries that needed to be helped to live the best way,which are the countries that America has conquered by Imperialism,Kipling had the idea that America had the responsibility to educate and civilizing the native people that now it’s controlled. that they needed to explain them to the western culture, their religion and their customs.
“ take the white man’s burden, send forth the best ye breed” making reference to take this task and use your best men,”to serve your captives’ need, to wait in heavy harness, on fluttered folk and wild”, serve those who need …show more content…
It makes Kipling Understand that not everyone is agreed with his form of thinking, most of humanity don’t have this idea of Imperialism and its causes. So just take the responsibility, don’t blame the nearest to your door, 'Tis nearest at your door;Why he'd long bleeding Cuba,or dark Hawaii’s shore?. By blame other when they are the one wrong, “Hail ye your fearless armies, Which menace feeble folks, Who fight with clubs and arrows”, your strong armies and powerful guns, which fought with stones and sticks. You didn't win the right way, but be proud of what you did with honor’s holy
The white man’s burden and The black man’s burden are both different viewpoints of the ways of Imperialism, such as positive consequences ways and negative consequences. The poem by Kipling,"The White Man's Burden" addresses the American colonization of the Philippine Islands, conquered from Imperial Spain, in the Spanish–American War in 1898; the birth of the American Empire. “The white man’s burden” has a viewpoint of imperialism of “savages” countries, countries that needed to be helped to live the best way,which are the countries that America has conquered by Imperialism,Kipling had the idea that America had the responsibility to educate and civilizing the native people that now it’s controlled. that they needed to explain them to the western culture, their religion and their customs.
“ take the white man’s burden, send forth the best ye breed” making reference to take this task and use your best men,”to serve your captives’ need, to wait in heavy harness, on fluttered folk and wild”, serve those who need …show more content…
It makes Kipling Understand that not everyone is agreed with his form of thinking, most of humanity don’t have this idea of Imperialism and its causes. So just take the responsibility, don’t blame the nearest to your door, 'Tis nearest at your door;Why he'd long bleeding Cuba,or dark Hawaii’s shore?. By blame other when they are the one wrong, “Hail ye your fearless armies, Which menace feeble folks, Who fight with clubs and arrows”, your strong armies and powerful guns, which fought with stones and sticks. You didn't win the right way, but be proud of what you did with honor’s holy