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8 Continue monitoring students’ progress. Remind them to generate questions about the poem and record them in the margin as they read.
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1. Craft and Structure (RL.11–12.5) Why does the author begin each stanza with the same line: “Take up the White Man’s burden”? What is different about the first line of the final stanza? How would the poem sound without the repeated first line of each stanza? How would you summarize the contents of each stanza? How does the minor change in the first line of the final stanza affect your understanding?
2. Key Ideas and Details (RL.11–12.1) Based on the author’s choice of language and details in the poem, who is the “White Man” and what is his “burden”? Do you think the “White Man” is one person or a type of person? Is the “burden” one task or many? Which words and details from the poem help you understand these concepts?
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Imperialism: A Poetic Conversation
sloth: laziness
heathen: irreligious; pagan
tawdry: morally bad My Notes
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And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to naught.
Take up the White Man’s burden— No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man’s burden— And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:— “Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden— Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye will or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.
Take up the White Man’s burden!
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy ungrudged praise:
Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years,
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers.
proffered: given or offered
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