Question

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.

Which statement best describes Kipling's point of view in this excerpt?

A. Colonial powers cannot stop sickness no matter how hard they
try.

B. Colonial powers cannot prevent war no matter how hard they try.

C. The people that have been helped by colonial powers undo all the
good that colonial powers have achieved.

D. The people that have been helped by colonial powers later take up
the White Man's burden themselves.

Answer 1

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.

Step-by-step 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.