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Kipling Short Answer

Answer all of the following questions based upon the poem and your outside knowledge.

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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.

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 simple,

An hundred times made plain

To seek another's profit,

And work 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 goal is nearest

The end 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 common things.

Question 1

Short answer

Briefly explain how the elements of Kipling’s poem reflect the influence of Social Darwinism.

Question 2

Short answer

Briefly explain one important difference in the factors that led to the new imperialism and the factors that led to the Age of Exploration and Discovery of the 15th and 16th

Question 3

Short answer

Briefly explain one important similarity between the factors that led to the new imperialism and the factors that led to the Age of Exploration and Discovery of the 15th and 16th

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