White Man's Burden

A trailer for an upcoming film, Amigo made me think of the poem White Man's Burden. Without searching for it on the internet, tell me who wrote the poem and what non-white people inspired the poem?

Quote: White Man's Burden (1st verse)

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.

Why, I believe that's my friend Mr. Kipling talking about India or Burma.

Edit: Okay, it's about neither of those places. I had an inkling it was somewhere else, but wasn't expecting that.

Has to be Kipling, or I always had it wrong. You sure would think it was about India. If not then Africa, but I didnt think he wrote about Africa.

I'll have to look into that movie to see why you would be reminded of the poem.

Rudyard Kipling for sure.
I believe it was Africa particularly with respect to the Boer War (Anglo-Boer war to some and War of Zionist Aggression to others depending upon one's views of the altruism of the English and the roles played by Diamonds and Gold) perhaps or the romp with the Fuzzy Wuzzies of the Sudan who "broke a British square'.

Of course its Kipling, who else wrote like that. In 1900
poetry was really 'in' and you had to have a gimmick
style that was immediately recognizable as yours.

E.E. Cummings was a little later, do you think he wrote
like this by accident? Individual style..

when god lets my body be from each brave eye
shall sprout a tree fruit that dangles therefrom

the purpled world will dance upon between my
lips which did sing a rose shall beget the spring

that maidens whom passion wastes will lay
between their little breasts my strong fingers

beneath the snow into strenuous birds shall
go my love walking in the grass their wings

will touch with her face and all the while
shall my heart be with the bulge and nuzzle of the sea

Quote: EvenBob

Of course its Kipling, who else wrote like that.

Kipling's style seems recognizable to most of you. What is a little surprising is that Rudyard was not talking about Africa, nor was it a an exhortation to his fellow Brits, who seemed to have a full grasp of the White Man's Burden in the Boer war.

Amigo stars Chris Cooper who is one of the more exceptional actors working right now. It's a smallish historical drama, which is being released as counter programming to Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night in two weeks.