Dead Man Path

1. By Brandon T. & Ben G. Dead Man Path

2. Rudyard Kipling

3. 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

4. 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

5. Speak of the Devil! • The poem Reads

6. What is its About? • The poem is about how white people often take the burden of telling other countries and peoples what to do

7. 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

8. 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"

9. Where was it made? • McClure's magizine,1899

10. Publishers Response • The media responded with a critique as New, political inquiry's with a controversial spin and evident truths

11. 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