Question

How would you characterize the tone of this poem “ the white mans burden “

Answer 1

In general “The White Man's Burden" is the feeling that colonization is necessary, an expectation, and even a duty of the white man. Kipling's poem is given from the perspective of a white man, probably American or British, speaking to his fellow white men. This speaker agrees with the white man's burden that they need to colonize by whatever means possible.