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Kipling's narrative voice contrasts the purported eternal wisdom of these commonplace texts with the fashionable and (in Kipling's view) naïve modern ideas of "the Market-Place", making oblique reference, by way of puns or poetic references to older geological time periods, to Welsh-born Lloyd George and Liberal efforts at disarmament ("the Cambrian measures"), feminism ("the ...
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Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling put it, always return.
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" "The Grave of the Hundred Head" "Great-Heart" "The Greek National Anthem" "Gunga Din" "Half-Ballad of Waterval" "Harp Song of the Dane Women" "Helen All Alone" "Heriot's Ford" "The Heritage" "The Holy War" "The Hour of the Angel" "The Houses" "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack" "Hyaenas" "Hymn Before Action"
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A copybook, or copy book is a book used in education that contains examples of handwriting and blank space for learners to imitate. [1] Typical uses include teaching penmanship and arithmetic to students. A page of a copy book typically starts with a copybook heading: a printed example of what should be copied, such as a single letter or a ...
"Tommy" is an 1890 poem [1] by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. [2] The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. [3]
T. S. Eliot, in his essay on Kipling for his 1941 anthology A Choice of Kipling's Verse, [2] writes that many writers have written verse without writing poetry, but that Kipling was unusual in that he did write poetry without setting out to do so. [3]