AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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Question
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Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
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the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
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the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
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the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems
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Detailed explanation-1: -As Victorian imperial poetry, “The White Man’s Burden” thematically corresponded to Kipling’s belief that the British Empire was the Englishman’s “Divine Burden to reign God’s Empire on Earth"; and celebrates British colonialism as a mission of civilisation that eventually would benefit the colonised natives.
Detailed explanation-2: -It entered English usage with English writer Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 published poem of the same title. The phrase refers to the purported historical task of white societies to control and civilize non-white societies through colonial subjugation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem thus does display certain social characteristics of the period, illustrated through some of its major themes like colonialism, racism and religion. Colonialism is the most overarching theme of the poem, especially when the poem focuses on white men’s burden of colonizing and civilizing other nations.