Poem Explication: White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling

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[zombieed_]

Thanks! I read this poem for a class and I had no idea what I read. This helped so much.

[CyColeman-zm]

i have been forced to watched this by teacher, H E L P

[abigailbosson]

I had to do an essay on this poem. Thank you SO much, this helped me finish the essay.

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[madilavigne]

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[Dark-rzmm]

This is such a good video. Im in 9th grade and this really helped with mt homework thanks*^____^*

[madelynkrieger]

Just listened to this and I understand this so much more!!!

[Tash]

Thank you I had to explain this in my own words and I couldn’t understand the lecture!

[xms]

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[kitjackson]

I liked this video it was very nice overlook of the poem. The only think I disagreed with was at the end when he said the US was an example of peaceful help for countries looking to develop.

[idioticbeatzz]

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[mphosahula]

Yaseen really said im taking credit for all my work. lmao

[dayasandhu]

damn you fudus really played yaseen making him do all the goddamn work saleyo bukriya

[karimkimmu]

i tried to look for alote of things in this poem but i coudnt find themes adn sybols if anyone can give them to me i be really happy my exam is near

[FootBoet]

The author wrote this in 1899. 50 years after Britain had abolished slavery. The author was vehemently against colonialism. Rudyards poem itself was written as satire. It was a pushback against the goals of Imperialism and hence, colonialism. However, to critique, you need to understand the historical context. Over a century ago, Britain and American colonialism was not thought of as conquering, nor genocide. Imperialism was a paternalistic ideal to civilize those that ‘needed’ to be burdensomely-dragged out of their primitiveness. Therefore, the same people would be replaced with their industrialized better-selves.

[antikytheramechanism]

I liked the ideas presented here but the reader did it in a sing-songy way that is offensive to this great work. The reader also had a cold or something making him a mouth breather.

[lassmt]

This is completely wrong. Misinterpretation of Kipling is common when people try to view history with modern eyes.

[thirstyhorsemongolia]

"Bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need". and you think this poem is vaunting colonialism? It screams with every line the bitter disappointment of those who with high moral principles have sought to better the lot of others only to see their efforts come to nothing.

Here's a story: A guy goes to some nameless undeveloped country. There is no work. People are starving. Disease and infant mortality are rife. Feeling pity, and being well placed personally he starts a business there. The business prospers. He employs a thousand people and pays them well. Then one day he gets into a conversation with a local who accuses him of stealing the resources of the country for his own greed. "You are joking", says our guy. "I funded a business with my own money and brought a thousand people out of poverty." "Yes, " comes the rely. "And without you, that would be one thousand and one!" Do you understand that?

Kipling's poem is about the ingratitude and resentment of those that the "white man" tried to help' but yet it insists that the "white man" is morally bound to try. That's why it is the white man's "burden." Kipling believed that it is our moral duty to help all the world to achieve a standard of life and enlightenment equal to our own.