I don't really see ow the two poems, "White Mans Burden"(wmb) and "Black Mans Burden"(bmb) are related other than the fact that they have similar names. They end compleatly differently, womb seems to end on a more dramatic note and bmb ends with something that sounds like it would be at the end of a funeral speach the two are "with honors holy breath" - bmb, and the other is "the judgment of your peers!"
The bmb says "pile on the black mans burden" and the wmb says "take up the white mans burden" I think that this shows how back when these poems were written that the white man was more in charge and the lack man took the lower position. It seems to me like the poems are saying the white man just puts his burdens on the black man for him to carry as his own.
That is an accurate analysis - certainly BMB is responding to WMB by saying that the people who really bear the burden of colonialism and all that comes with it are not white men, but black and brown men who are colonized by white men. Do we see any examples of this in Heart of Darkness?
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