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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 ...
"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son ...
My Boy Jack is a 1997 play by English actor David Haig. It tells the story of Rudyard Kipling and his grief for his son, John, who died in the First World War. The title comes from Kipling's 1915 poem, My Boy Jack. [1]
My Boy Jack is a 2007 British biographical television film based on David Haig's 1997 play of the same name [1] for ITV. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as John Kipling. [2] The American television premiere was on 20 April 2008 on PBS, with primetime rebroadcast on 27 March 2011. [3]
Rudyard Kipling. The Fringes of the Fleet, essays and poems "My Boy Jack", written after his beloved son, John (called Jack) goes missing in the Battle of Loos during World War I; years later, Jack's death is confirmed to Kipling and his family; a play and film with the same title are later created, based on the Kipling family's loss
The trailer is set with a reading of Rudyard Kipling's poem Boots in the background of the action. The poem, released in 1903, reflects repetitive thoughts of a soldier marching in war.
Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (born MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. [13] Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters ) [ 14 ] was a vivacious woman, [ 15 ] of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room."
Many of Kipling's short stories were introduced with a short fragment of poetry, sometimes from an existing poem and sometimes an incidental new piece. These were often identified "A Barrack-Room Ballad", though not all the poems they were taken from would otherwise be collected or classed this way.