Question

In Kipling’s poem, each verse begins “Take up the white man’s burden”; in this poem, the author has changed this line to read “Pile on the brown man’s burden.” What is the significance of this?

Answer 1

"The White Man's Burden" thematically corresponds to Kipling's belief that the British Empire (1583–1945) was the Englishman's "Divine Burden to reign God's Empire on Earth"

Explanation:

''The White Man's Burden,'' was a famous poem written by Kipling. It was written in the year 1899. The poem was addressed not to the British but to the Americans, who were then, under President McKinley, beginning their own process of colonizing the Philippines.

Rudyard Kipling's notorious prescription for the United States as it began to rule the Philippine Islands. That refrain, from an 1899 poem, eventually became a key exhibit in the case against the racism and exploitation of 19th-century imperialism.