A White Man's Burden Research Paper

The White Man’s Burden Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India. However, Rudyard was sent to England to be educated in 1871, when he was just six years old. While in England, Rudyard was abused by his host family, which led to the development of his defiant and satirical attitude. Kipling recounted his abusive childhood in his book Something of Myself, “Myself I was regularly beaten”(“Rudyard Kipling”). Unable, and unwilling, to further his education, due to financial limitations, Rudyard returned to India in 1882. After returning and reconnecting with his family, Kipling obtained his first literary job for a Anglo- Indian newspaper. Kipling’s was assigned some journalistic cases, but his real occupation was to write …show more content…
Rudyard’s first daughter Josephine was born in 1893, her birth gave influenced Kipling’s writing to create stories for children. In 1894, Kipling wrote his most famous novel, The Jungle Book. Kipling continued to write stories, then in 1897 the Kipling’s left America and returned to England, and soon celebrated the birth of his son, John. America entered the Spanish-American war in 1898 and the war ended in August of 1898, Kipling wrote the poem “A White Man’s Burden” in 1899, after Josephine died of influenza and Kipling’s writings focused more on politics . The poem appeared to take on a satirical attitude towards America gaining control of the Philippine Islands from Spain. Kipling’s controversial poem sparked the downward spiral of his career. He released several other works that presented unorthodox views of politics and religion. Rudyard Kipling’s radical views led to a decrease in popularity; however, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907 and won the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1926 (“Rudyard Kipling”).Rudyard Kipling died on January 18, 1936, at the age of 71, due to an ulcer (“Rudyard Kipling-Biographical”). Kipling left behind a great legacy of famous short stories and deep controversial poetry, …show more content…
His poem, “A White Man’s Burden” exemplifies his anti-imperialistic views that were unpopular during the Spanish-American War. Kipling expresses that, stereotypically, during the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, white men felt they were tasked with the job to help integrate other cultures to a white man’s view of life. Kipling’s poem satirically critics the concept of imperialism and converting the innocent victims of