Can someone please help me understand the poem Brown Man's Burden?

Question

http://www.guhsd.net/mcdowell/history/projects/wmburden/brownman.html

That is the link to the poem. It is a parody of the White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling. The writer of Brown Man's Burden is Henry Labouchère. Please, if anyone can, give me a brief summary, and analysis of what the poem is about. ANYTHING helpful would be appreciated. MAIN QUESTION: how and why is it a parody of White Man's Burden?

Answer 1

Brown Man's is an anti-imperialist poem parodying Kipling's.

Compare to Kipling's and consider the question below:

The White Man's Burden
By Rudyard Kipling

Take up the White Man's burden-
Send forth the best ye breed-
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild-
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden-
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden-
The savage wars of peace-
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden-
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper-
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke (1) your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel, (2)
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
*
(1) Cloak, cover.
(2) Since the days of Classical Greece, a laurel wreath has been a symbolic victory prize.
**


Example: Questions to Guide Qualitative Content Analysis

1. How are events, issues, or people framed?
2. Are certain people defined as having or causing problems? What are the causes of the problem? What are the proposed solutions?
3. Who are the heroes and villains?
4. Is there a sense of "us" and "them" conveyed by the coverage? Who is the assumed reader - a part of "us" or "them"?
5. Is there a sense that some issues are assumed to be naturally more important than others?
6. Who speaks and who is silent? Which sources are assumed to be correct and which are challenged or doubted? Who is allowed to define the issue?
7. What is the message conveyed by headlines, captions, and pictures? How do these help frame the issue?

*Read the links below closely too.

good luck

Answer 2

Perhaps it could aid to treat Labouchere as a satirist - he mocked the hypocrisy of colonial powers in how they justified their imposition on different peoples. It's valuable to examine out the longer dialogue of Henry Labouchere on Wikipedia considering it describes to the talk through historians as as to if his exaggerations went additional than his actual intentions in criminalising male homosexuality.