WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Although Kipling’s poem mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States latched onto the phrase “white man’s burden” as a euphemism for imperialism that seemed to justify the policy as a noble enterprise.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conquest in the poem is not portrayed as a way for the white race to gain individual or national wealth or power. Instead, the speaker defines white imperialism and colonialism in moral terms, as a “burden” that the white race must take up in order to help the non-white races develop civilization.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The White Man’s Burden” presents the conquering of non-white races as white people’s selfless moral duty. This conquest, according to the poem, is not for personal or national benefit, but rather for the gain of others-specifically, for the gain of the conquered.

Detailed explanation-4: -The title of this piece refers to the burden of shame and guilt that the colonizers piled upon the black, brown, and red men. They kept on piling their ideology on them by defusing the inner potential of colonized. In this piece, Johnson writes in a humorous, satiric, and ironic tone.