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    Rudyard Kipling was an English author born in India in 1865 who is famous for works like "Just So Stories", "If", and "The Jungle Book". He received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden" urged the US to take up imperialism. It became controversial as many saw it as promoting racialized notions of white supremacy. Kipling suffered from an ulcer in his later years and died in 1936, with his ashes buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.

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    Rudyard Kipling was an English author born in India in 1865 who is famous for works like "Just So Stories", "If", and "The Jungle Book". He received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden" urged the US to take up imperialism. It became controversial as many saw it as promoting racialized notions of white supremacy. Kipling suffered from an ulcer in his later years and died in 1936, with his ashes buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.

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    Rudyard Kipling was an English author born in India in 1865 who is famous for works like "Just So Stories", "If", and "The Jungle Book". He received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden" urged the US to take up imperialism. It became controversial as many saw it as promoting racialized notions of white supremacy. Kipling suffered from an ulcer in his later years and died in 1936, with his ashes buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.

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    ‘‘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. Published in the February, 1899 issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the
    Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under
    American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend,
    Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not
    everyone was as favorably impressed as Roosevelt. The racialized notion of the “White Man’s burden” became a euphemism for
    imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.’’ (history matters, WD)

    ‘‘Vuestros recién conquistados y descontentos pueblos,


    Mitad demonios y mitad niños.’’

    Here we can observe that he refers to the newly conquered villages as half demons half
    boys.
    ‘‘Llevad la carga del Hombre Blanco—
    Con paciencia para sufrir,
    Para ocultar la amenaza del terror’’

    Here he expresses like the white men are like saviors, that they suffer and take care of
    others.
    ‘‘Llevad la carga del Hombre Blanco—
    No el gobierno de hierro de los reyes,
    Sino el trabajo del siervo y el barrendero—’’
    He expresses like the white men don't have as much privilege as we think and that they work
    lot.
    ‘‘Contemplad a la pereza e ignorancia salvaje
    Llevar toda vuestra esperanza hacia la nada.’’
    Here it’s like he think anyone who is lazy or ignorant maybe including that they don´´ have a
    great education are savages.
    ‘‘Para encubrir vuestro cansancio.
    Por todo lo que deseéis o susurréis,
    Por todo lo que hagáis o dejéis de hacer,’’
    Here he expresses like the white man suffers to give the others what they want.
    Rudyard Kipling Biography

    Rudyard Kipling was an English author but he was born in India


    (1865), famous for an array of works like 'Just So Stories,' 'If' and
    'The Jungle Book.' He received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.
    Kipling married Caroline Balestier and settled in Brattleboro
    (Vermont), where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), among a host
    of other works that made him hugely successful. Kipling was the
    recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in
    1936.(biography.com editors, 2021)

    ‘‘Around this time, Kipling's star power started to grow. In addition


    to Plain Tales From the Hills, Kipling published a second collection
    of short stories, Wee Willie Winkie (1888), and American Notes
    (1891), which chronicled his early impressions of America. In 1892,
    he also published the poetry work Barrack-Room Ballads.’’ (biography.com editors, 2021)

    ‘’Over his last few years, Kipling suffered from a painful ulcer that eventually took his life on January
    18, 1936. Kipling's ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey in Poets' Corner next to the graves of
    Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. ‘’ (biography.com editors, 2021)

    SOURCES:

    B. (2021, April 14). Rudyard Kipling. Biography. Retrieved November 5, 2021, from

    https://www.biography.com/writer/rudyard-kipling

    “The White Man’s Burden”: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism. (n.d.). History

    Matters. Retrieved November 5, 2021, from http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/

    Kipling, R., & Bou, L. C. (n.d.). RUDYARD KIPLING: La Carga del Hombre Blanco.

    Geocities. Retrieved November 5, 2021, from

    http://www.geocities.ws/obserflictos/kipling.html

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