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WARRIOR [948]
3 years ago
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Take up the White Man's burden-

English
1 answer:
deff fn [24]3 years ago
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The statement which best describes Kipling's point of view in this excerpt is, 'The people that have been helped by colonial powers undo all the

good that colonial powers have achieved.'

Answer: Option C.

Explanation:

‘The White Man’s Burden’ is a poem written by a well known poet Rudyard Kipling. This poem is about the war between America and Philippine. The poem consists of seven stanzas and the excerpt provided is from the third stanza of the poem.

The last two lines of the stanza clearly depicts how the people who have been helped the colonial powers undid all the good that the colonials have achieved.

‘Watch sloth and heathen Folly

Bring all your hopes to nought.’ Here the speaker have described people as sloth, heathen, and folly; which means people are lazy, uncivilized, and foolish. He further states that they’re the ones to bring all hopes to nought, to nothingness and failure.

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