LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Charles Baudelaire
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William Butler Yeats
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Rudyard Kipling
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Napoleon III
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Detailed explanation-1: -In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1899, Rudyard Kipling, a famed English poet, had his poem “The White Man’s Burden” published in McClure’s, a monthly magazine popular at the turn of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The White Man’s Burden” is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure’s in 1899. It was a response to the U.S. taking over the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1901, after two years of devastating warfare in the Philippines, Mark Twain remarked: “The White Man’s Burden has been sung.
Detailed explanation-5: -In November 1898, Rudyard Kipling sent his poem “The White Man’s Burden” to his friend Theodore Roosevelt, who had just been elected Governor of New York.