Read this selection from Rudyard Kipling’s The White Man's Burden (1899) and answer the following questions:
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.
1. What does he mean by “the White Man’s Burden”?
2. What was the exile of which he spoke?
3. What does the word captives indicate?
