Take up the White Man's burden Send forth the best ye breed. Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need. 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 simple An hundred times made plain 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 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?" 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 Through all the thankless years, Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers! –Rudyard Kipling "The White Man's Burden" 1899 According to the poem, how are colonizers repaid by those they colonize?
<em>"The White Man´s Burden" </em>is a poem by Victorian poet Rudyard Kipling. The poem explores the theme of colonization, urging American people to go to the foreign lands and colonize people. For the author, colonization is the necessary "burden" of the white race. White people must civilize black people in order to help them. However, black people usually do not understand this concept, and they often hate their colonizers instead of being thankful.
