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What would this passage be?
I have to know if this passage is a second or third person reference
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.
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.
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Second person; the sentences are imperative (as was Kipling, generally), with the implied subject 'you': (You) take up the White Man's burden, (You) send forth the best ye (you) breed, etc.
- Second person; the sentences are imperative (as was Kipling, generally), with the implied subject 'you': (You) take up the White Man's burden, (You) send forth the best ye (you) breed, etc.
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Second person; the sentences are imperative (as was Kipling, generally), with the implied subject 'you':
(You) take up the White Man's burden,
(You) send forth the best ye (you) breed, etc.
(You) take up the White Man's burden,
(You) send forth the best ye (you) breed, etc.
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