Summary of "The White Man's Burden"

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Above is Shefali's summary of "The White Man's Burden," the poem by Rudyard Kipling.  This poem was published about the same time that Heart of Darkness appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.

The picture above is of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, the calvary unit that he commanded in Cuba.  About three years after this picture was taken, Roosevelt became President of the U.S..  He succeeded William McKinley who had been assassinated.