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It is helpful to read “The White Man’s Burden”, which has been used to condemn the form of imperialism which Kipling embraced, alongside his letter of 18 August , to the American George Cram Cook. At the time of Kipling’s letter, Cook, a professor of English, was stationed at Camp Cuba Libra in Florida, as a member of the 50th Iowa. In February , 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, issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and . "The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in , Kipling revised it in to exhort the American people to conquer and rule the Philippines.

The White Man's Burden Rudyard Kipling. Kipling, author of The Jungle Book and many other works of fiction, history, and letters, published this poem in in response to the U.S. acquisition. Overview "The White Man's Burden" is a lyric poem written by Rudyard Kipling, an English short-story writer, novelist, and poet who achieved enormous success and acclaim during his lifetime. The poem was published simultaneously in The Times newspaper in England and in McClure's Magazine in the United States in February Directly under the title appeared the words, "The United. "The White Man's Burden": Kipling's Hymn to U.S. Imperialism. In February , 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.

In February , 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, 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. Original title The White Man's Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands". Kipling had composed this for Queen Victoria's jubilee in , but replaced it with his poem prayer "Recessional". "Burden" was published two years later, altered to fit the theme of the American imperialist colonization of the Philippines, recently won from Spain in the Spanish-American War. ‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling is a seven stanza poem that is separated into sets of eight lines. The rhyme scheme and metrical pattern are extremely regulated. This feature makes the poem feel very tensely structured and creates the feeling that these lines should be read out loud, perhaps chanted.