DEAD MAN PATH

By Brandon T. & Ben G.

Rudyard Kipling

A little Bit About

Joseph Rudyard Kipling30 December 1865

Short story writer, novelist, poet, journalist

Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907

Over 100 works in literature

Reputation?

Kipling’s reputation became heated after he published the story, “The White Man burden”

It created social tension and an unfamiliar environments for Critics and the common folk alike

Speak of the Devil!

The poem Reads

What is its About?

The poem is about how white people often take the burden of telling other countries and peoples what to do

That Means… White people continually have a tendency to

dictate, and encourage the cultural development of people from other ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Interpreted as racist, or taken as a metaphor for a condescending view of non-Western national culture and economic traditions

Surrounding Circumstance Kipling was habitually a Satirical, or

not serious writer.

Ergo, "The White Man's Burden" is in fact meant to parody imperialist attitudes

Chris Snodgrass, "imperial sensibilities with wry irony and skepticism, viewing all human endeavors as ultimately transitory"

Where was it made?

McClure's magizine,1899

Publishers Response

The media responded with a critique as New, political inquiry's with a controversial spin and evident truths

Americas Reaction American was shocked, and took this piece

of literature as a direct slap in the face and adversarial position to the way things should, and have always been done.

The black mans burden was even published after this poem in direct contrast to what Kipling had to say, by African-American clergyman and editor H. T. Johnson and published in April 1899