Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' want
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 easy,
An hundred times produced plain
To seek another's profit,
And function 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 aim is nearest
The finish 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 prevalent 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 much 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 much less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke 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 performed with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
By means of all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-purchased wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
From who's perspective is this poem written?
two. What is the white man's burden?
three. How does Kipling describe the native populations?
four. What are some problems that the white man is looking for to solve?
five. What is the white man's "old reward"?
6. Why is the white man's burden a thankless job?
Finest answer:
Answer by the_lipsiot
Heather - you really would get on better at school if you made at least a small work to try to find out and do your homework.
I've lost count of the quantity of occasions I've read a post that reads "Help please" in the history section from you.
If you really are struggling, wouldn't it be greater to speak to your teacher rather than rely on a bunch of world wide web surfers?
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