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Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din". [1]
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was never referred to as "Jack" [citation needed]. The poem echoes the grief of ...
David Hughes (born 1947) is a Welsh writer. He is the originator of the phrase "ambition is critical", which was made famous by its appearance in the 1997 film Twin Town [ 1 ] and has regularly been misattributed to fellow Swansea poet Dylan Thomas .
The moment I read those words, I know just how he felt. When I had to put my own dog to sleep, after a long bout with terminal cancer, I remember lying on my bed crying unable to think about ...
Thus, Tolkien explains, the poet uses beorn and freca to mean "warrior" or "man", this last a usage already then restricted to heroic poetry; at the time, beorn was a variant of the word for bear, just as freca was another word for wolf, and the audience expected and enjoyed hearing such words in the special circumstance of a performance by a ...
He was particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern. Ray was the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry, including "Hemingway: A Desperate Life" (2011), "When" (2007), "Music of Time: Selected and New Poems" (2006) and The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars (2004 ...
David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". [ 4 ] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.
The natural environment of the Pacific Northwest was the subject of much of David Wagoner's poetry. He cited his move from the Midwest as a defining moment: "[W]hen I came over the Cascades and down into the coastal rainforest for the first time in the fall of 1954, it was a big event for me, it was a real crossing of a threshold, a real change of consciousness.