Question

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.

Answer 1

What does it mean ^.^

Answer 2

@iGreen.

Answer 3

@AnswerMyQuestions

Answer 4

Explain what the first phrase of Stanza 1 (the first 4 lines) means? ^.^

Answer 5

@King.Void.

Answer 6

I know that the phrase (White mans burden) means that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color.

Answer 7

The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands. The poem was originally written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, but exchanged for "Recessional"; Kipling changed the text of "Burden" to reflect the subject of American colonization of the Philippines, recently won from Spain in the Spanish-American War. The poem consists of seven stanzas, following a regular rhyme scheme. At face value it appears to be a rhetorical command to white men to colonize and rule other nations for the benefit of those people.

Answer 8

Hmmm ok what else can you tell me about the two stanzas I put up there

Answer 9

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080301213658AAnaI99.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

I got it thanks guys