"White man's burden" and "Black man's burden"

White man's burden:
The white men described as here in this poem, sounds like an ideal human being. Strong, courageous, free willed, everything a hero would be. This is extremely close to how Joseph Conrad describes the character " Kurtz" in "Heart of Darkness". (In the book) Marlow's entire secret goal is to see Kurtz. This man that he admires, looks up to. He describes him as one could describe an angel.

I couldn't find a specific place in the novel that states the point that I am about to get across in exact words, but, I can give a line from the main character. Marlow repeatedly asks: "who is this Kurtz". He only knows this man by being told he is the first class agent of this company who so far, Marlow seems to be slightly disturbed by. Marlow hears many of the other workers gossiping about Kurtz and how bad and crazy he is. All of these negative thoughts about this one man and yet, Marlow is drawn to him through some form of fascination.


Black mans burden:
This poem is obviously very close to " the white man's burden" because they are both describing the traits and actions of both races. When Kipling was describing the white men in his poem, I envisioned a strong courageous figure that protects what's his and he will never give up defending it. "The black mans burden" described a person who is very much strong and valiant, but also stressed. "Pile on the Black Man’s Burden" was the first line of the poem. To me, this suggests that these people are having more and more problems and activity (not always good) shoved into their hands. 

( page 31) "the hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere nearby, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there." This passage makes the black person sound creature like, possibly animal. The poem is like a different side of the story. The poem is showing the story from the native's point of view. In the book, they are very minor roles that make appearances that paints them as a disturbing figure,

Personal thoughts: One could realize how short "the black man's burden" is compared to the "white man's burden". This I think is most likely because they didn't have a big schedule on their hands. The black men were slaves that worked hard and painfully in the day. Or free men living in fear because people with darker skin at this time were not free, they were owned. As a side note: this poem was hard for me to decide of it was written back around the same time as "the white man's burden". Sure, if one was to look at the basic facts in history, such as: black people were not allowed to write or learn. But, both of these poems are entitled "black MAN'S burden" same as the "white man's burden" if this poem was written in the more recent time period, this poem would be titled "black people's burden". By shortening the title that focuses only on men and ignores women, to me, seems like the basic stereotype for a poet of the older days where topics such as these were not considered racist or sexist.