The White Man's Burden 'And Anna Manning Comfort'

The white man’s burden and The home burdens of uncle sam, these two poems were written by Rudyard Kipling and Anna Manning Comfort. Rudyard Kipling, who was an idealist and pro-imperialist writer. When he wrote The white man’s burden, he argued the American should serve the needs of others. In opposite, Anna Manning Comfort, who is an anti-imperialist, wrote The home burdens of uncle sam, which didn’t agree with Mr. Kipling. She thought the American should solve their own problem first, then help others. In their poems, they both kept repeating the same sentence “take up the white man’s burden,” but they have different means on this sentence.

“The white man’s burden” written by Rudyard Kipling in 1899, he wrote this famous poem after the
Kipling that people should focus on their own problems. In her poem, she talked about four major problems that the U.S had. First, “Recall the poor wild Indian Who's ruthlessly you slew," she pointed out how American treated the Native American, pushed them onto reservation system, destroyed their main source, and took away their children. Second, she addressed the U.S is the racist how they treated the African American. “The negro, once our slave! Boast lightly of his freedom. This problem still is grave.” She talked how the society prejudice, violence to the African American didn’t give them the rights. Next is the gently inequality, how the society ignored the women make them pay the tax, but not let them vote or ballot. Women need to stay at home and listened to their husband. The last is the political corruption. “Our politic disgraceful, In church and school and state.” Think about how the political treated the lower class people, force them vote and force them pay for protection. “Why fight the foreign despots, or filipino isles? Come “ scrap is” with “home tyrants,” her main idea was we should take care of our own issues before looking oversea. “Right here is our own times. Give justice,’tis demand this side of distant climes.” The whites should be fair on