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White Mans Burden

Broken down

April 2023

Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives; need

Stanza 1-4

Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives need

1-2

Subtopic 1

The fist two stanzas Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Are reffering white men and the best of the best at that in order to control these people of who they thought to be wild beasts

Subtopic 2

3-4

The next two stanzas say

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives need

These stanzas referr to black people as captives which is a person/people who have been taken prisoner, and by "exile" he meant service because he thought of black people as animals with no emotion who needed to be tamed in order for a white mans safety.

Stanza 5-8

Stanza 5-8

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

5-6

Explantion

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild

These stanzas illistrate the idea that the white men who have colonized the africans land will wait on the african people because they are dimwitted and untamed. Which is purely because they looked and sounded different than the europeans.

7-8

7-8

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

These stanzas reffer to the people of color as being caught or held captive and that they are bad tempered. Rufard also says that they are half devil and half child showing that he beleives they are evil and dim all because of the color of their skin

Stanza 13-16

And when your goal is nearest

The end for others sought,

Watch sloth and heathen Folly

Bring all your hopes to nought.

13-16

And when your goal is nearest

The end for others sought,

Watch sloth and heathen Folly

Bring all your hopes to nought.

13-14

And when your goal is nearest

The end for others sought,

This means that the europeans believed that the native americans wanted them to fail and not achieve their goals

15-16

Watch sloth and heathen Folly

Bring all your hopes to nought.

This shows that that they did not respect the africans and demonstrated this by reffering to them as sloth and heathen folly meaning slow and unreligiuos. The europeans strongly beleived the the africans wanted all that they had when in reality all that the europeans had belonged to the africans

Stanza 9-12

Take up the White Man's burden--

The savage wars of peace--

Fill full the mouth of Famine

And bid the sickness cease;.

Stanza 9-12

Take up the White Man's burden--

The savage wars of peace--

Fill full the mouth of Famine

And bid the sickness cease;

9-10

9-10

Take up the White Man's burden--

The savage wars of peace--

Taking up the white mans burden means to take on the responsibilites of looking after and tending for the the black peoples needs as they are their captives. The savage wars of peace reffers to the idea of giving peace to those they have taken from.

11-12

Fill full the mouth of Famine

And bid the sickness cease;

These stanzas are an example of the white men beilving the africans cant take care of themselves and need to be tended to

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