please give certain examples!
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the very best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' require
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--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride
By open speech and basic,
An hundred instances created plain
To seek another's profit,
And operate another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease
And when your goal is nearest
The finish for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of frequent things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye greater,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to much less--
Nor call also loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have completed with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The effortless, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Via all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
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Answer by shultzie knows finest
A fine function of satire, Kipling wrote this for Victoria's diamond jubilee and it was a tweak at the United States becoming a colonial power immediately after the defeat of Spain in the Spanish American War. The irony was that the US did not want any parts of a colonial empire and commented on European colonialism and now discovered itself with one and no concept how to administer the dilemma.
A excellent poem and it is as controversial today as it was when written.
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