Why no love for Kipling?

>>24514262 (OP)
I detest him for “White Man’s Burden”
>t. Pinoy

>>24514262 (OP)
i do love a good cherry bakewell

>>24514298
You are very special. And I don't mean that in a good way.

>>24514298
If you're the Pinoy, anon, then don't green text it. By green texting you suggest that OP is Pinoy..

>>24514262 (OP)
He's both pro-pajeet and pro-colonization. Completely incompatible with modern right and left cultural views.

>>24514395
Not necessarily. In this context the greentext can be used for both. Had he put it before the rest of his post it would have strongly implied that he was talking about the OP, while doing so after it is more ambiguous.

>>24514395
Leave it to a Pinoy to mess up even basic post formatting. Ah, well. Such is the white man's burden.

>>24514262 (OP)
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 make 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 ye 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 cloak 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 proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers.

>>24514395
>>24514696
I think the Pinoy is right.

If you’re going to read just one thing from him, it should of course be his Jungle Book duology, but I also recommend this sampler from Irving Howe for those new to Kipling as it contains both his prose and poetry.

the sun never sets on the british empire

>>24514749
-ack!

>>24514749
stolen words. the original referred to the spanish empire.

>>24514782
>the surge of white non-British in the 80s and 90s
Pol-ack!

>>24514782
And by "Asian" they mean Indians and Pakistanis btw.

Grim.

>>24514707
He's wrong actually

>>24514926
ok

>>24514707
Greentexting is a means of quotation, and "t." is a construction used in the signature to a letter. Pinoyanon's usage would be like a letter written thusly.

Dear OP,

u r a fag

"Sincerely, Anonymous"

PS: See what I mean?

Kaa is the coolest character in all of literature. You are not permitted to disagree.

>>24515105

— Mowgli foolishly gets into bad company

— Bagheera and Baloo come to rescue him

— They're outnumbered something like three hundred to one

— Things are looking bad


. . . Then Kaa came straight, quickly, and anxious to kill. The fighting strength of a python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body. If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought. A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know. His first stroke was delivered into the heart of the crowd round Baloo. It was sent home with shut mouth in silence, and there was no need of a second. The monkeys scattered with cries of — “Kaa! It is Kaa! Run! Run!”

>>24514262 (OP)
Too tied up with colonialism