Who wrote "Take up the White Man's burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-" in order to inspire Western Europeans to propagate benevolent, enlightened colonialism ?
Correct answer: C. Rudyard Kipling
- A. Charles Baudelaire
- B. William Butler Yeats
- C. Rudyard Kipling
- D. Napoleon III
Explanation
The lines come from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden,” which presented a controversial justification for colonial rule as a supposed civilising duty. The quotation is therefore associated with Kipling, not Yeats or the other choices.
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