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SashimiPete - "The person small is a reference to his daughter Joesephine and her inquisitiveness. The poem was written in ? Perhaps the 10 million men were the size of the British empires armed forces around the world. At least million in India which Kipling was close to. I-Like-Rhymes - I concur with your analysis Hugh. The last 4 lines are clearly a gentle dig at his 'best beloved'. Hugh Wyles - To me this is not only a concise, good-humoured glossary of the essential factors needed for research, but is also an avowal of a patient and understanding father's love for his intelligent and enquiring offspring.

I think it's rather a pity that double anapaest in line 17 breaks the metrical flow. Perhaps: "She sends em off on her affairs," might have fitted better? People knew his poems by heart, read his stories to their children. The Queen wanted to knight him. Kipling has been variously labelled a colonialist, a jingoist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a misogynist, a right-wing imperialist warmonger; and—though some scholars have argued that his views were more complicated than he is given credit for—to some degree he really was all those things.

That he was also a prodigiously gifted writer who created works of inarguable greatness hardly matters anymore, at least not in many classrooms, where Kipling remains politically toxic. He argues that Kipling was profoundly altered by his experience of America, and that America, in turn, was altered by its experience of Kipling.

But you could also make a case that neither was changed enough. Kipling never learned to lighten up—or to appreciate American humor and informality—and America, by his lights, never got over being headstrong and overly sure of itself. Kipling wound up in Brattleboro because, in January, , when he was twenty-six and already famous for tales and poems he had published about India, he married a Vermonter named Carrie Balestier. Theirs was such a perplexing union that you wish that Benfey had gone into more detail about it.

They thought her unattractive and opinionated, not nearly feminine enough. So what did Kipling see in her? Wolcott Balestier was a darting, quicksilver figure, who probably deserves a book of his own. Some people thought him vulgar, but most of literary London was charmed; Henry James and Edmund Gosse were especially smitten.

In December, , Balestier died suddenly, of typhoid, at the age of twenty-nine. Carrie was neither of those things. It seems likely that she engineered the marriage, although Benfey wonders whether Balestier, on his deathbed, might have made his sister promise to wed his friend. The Kipling biographer Martin Seymour-Smith has proposed, with little evidence, a different theory: that Balestier confessed to his sister that he and Kipling had been lovers, and that she offered to marry Kipling to protect his reputation.

It was not, in any event, an ideal match. Kipling—gloomy, moody, prone to breakdowns—was far from easy to live with, he says, and Carrie did everything she could to give him peace in which to write. She ran the household, took care of the money, shooed away distractions. Not least, she brought him to Vermont, after he had lost a considerable fortune in what became the financial panic of Now consider a similar question framed, positioned and delivered more appropriately.

And thirdly, asked with empathy will imply "Talk to me lots about Compared to "How was school? So, thank you Mr Kipling, we hear what you say about your "honest servants". This article is brought to you by NBSL's North East Business Support Fund which funds the costs of business improvement projects such as website development, marketing strategies, external consultancy — click here to find out more The North East Business Support Fund has hundreds of registered providers offering a wide range of business support.

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