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“The white man’s burden” is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling is a British author and poet born in Mumbai, India.
He was born in the year 1865 in Mumbai, India and died in the year 1936 in London, England. Kipling is world renowned, for sharing his arts in all of the world's corners.
Kipling’s travels made him achieve loads of prizes, a great example is when Kipling won a Nobel Prize in the year 1907 for his amazing literary work.
I will be using the FLIRT method to analyse the poem. The method is known for reviewing Form, Language, Imagery, Rhythm and Theme.
The text that I'm going to analyse is “The white man’s burden” with the focus on post colonialism.
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This can be put into perspective with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “A Single Story” whereas the oppressed are barbaric people with no purpose of their own, seen from The British Empire’s perspective.
But then there is the other perspective from Indian culture and wisdom. A great example of this is “Postcolonial Theory” written by Leelah Gandhi.
Leelah Gandhi uses great theorists such as Homi Bahba and Edward Said and she even uses points from former great minds such as Mahatma Gandhi.
Leelah Gandhi made the book “Postcolonial Theories” to learn about different cultures and how to learn how different or similar the cultures are, whereas The British Empire would mainly plant their own cultures, wisdom and beliefs into other nations.
When it comes to Kipling's poem “The White Man’s Burden” he uses downgrading words to show that the colonized are being oppressed.
An example of this is seen when he says:
“On fluttered folk and wild
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.”
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