Rudyard Kipling

Kipling's poem "The Way Through the Woods" depicts an abandoned road reclaimed by nature over time. The poem's central themes include power, as seen in the human creation of the road and nature's...

"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling is a story about a British man in India named Fleete who desecrates a Hindu temple and is cursed by a leper priest. As a result, Fleete exhibits animalistic...

In "The Way through the Woods," the poet's message is that the natural world will always overcome whatever is manmade. Throughout the poem, the poet uses literary devices such as repetition, sensory...

Kipling's "The Sea and the Hills" is a comparison between life at sea and life in the hills. Through poetic devices such as terminal rhymes, alliteration, and anaphora, Kipling effectively conveys...

Kipling's speech "Values in Life" is characterized by its formal, authoritative tone, personal address, and abundant use of metaphor. The speaker, while maintaining a friendly and self-deprecating...

Both "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "Prayer Before Birth" by Louis MacNeice present fears about the world which they hope they themselves, or the person they are writing about, can overcome.

The path in Rudyard Kipling's "The Way Through the Woods" was closed to allow nature to reclaim it. Seventy years ago, the road was shut, and trees and plants now cover it, creating a habitat for...

In "The Stranger" by Rudyard Kipling, alliteration and assonance emphasize the themes of bitterness and otherness. Alliteration, such as "bitter bad" and "them and their," draws attention to the...

"The Phantom Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling is a ghost story about Jack Pansay, who has an affair with Agnes Wessington. After he breaks off the affair and gets engaged to Kitty Mannering, Agnes dies....

The title of poetry is extremely important and it's your first clue: "Seal Lullaby", by Kipling. This is a lullaby, of course. It's a gentle poem and read aloud, the beat rocks back and forth --...

Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet best known for works like The Jungle Book and "If—". Born in India in 1865, he gained fame for his stories and poems set in British colonial India....

In this two-stanza poem by Rudyard Kipling, the poet describes a road through the woods that was closed seventy years ago. Now nature has completely taken over the attempts by common man to turn...

Rhyme is one of the primary metrical elements in a poem, and it involves the repetition of sounds at the end of or within lines of poetry. A rhyme scheme, then, is the pattern of rhyme found in a...

There is prominent symbolism in Rudyard Kipling's “How the Camel Got His Hump,” including each of the animals in the story, and in “How The Whale Got his Throat,” including the 'Stute Fish and the...

In Rudyard Kipling's short poem "The Verdicts," published in 1916, the speaker describes how the men in a particular battle between Britain and Germany are heroes who have saved the British way of...

I would say that the moral of this story is that taking an empire and trying to rule it (as the British did in India and elsewhere) is nearly impossible to do well and is harmful to the people who...

Kipling is trying to persuade us that we need to behave in certain ways and have certain character traits.  He is saying that we can only be true "men" if we act in these ways and have these...

Captains Courageous is a coming-of-age story that centers on a teenage boy’s adventures at sea. The main characters are Harvey Cheyne, the boy; Disko Troop, a fishing boat captain; Dan Troop,...

You probably cannot find this because it is not specifically stated in the story -- you are supposed to infer it from what happens in the story. To me, what Kipling is trying to show is that the...

The themes that develop between Rudyard Kipling's "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and Wayne Santos's "Best Beloved" include foreign threats and bodily transformation. The Ethiopian, the British, and...

The short story "The Mark of the Beast" is a work of fiction. It is an allegory or parable (a story with a moral) which is based on the Biblical prophecy in Revelation 13:16-18: He also forced...

Kipling's "A Pict Song" is about grassroots movement to change government policy. I would think that it would go against what America's foreign relationships with Palestine, Mexico and Iraq are...

It's interesting to read and absorb the powerfully motivating thoughts of Kipling that are presented here.  I am still stuck with his notion of "East is East and West is West and never will...

The main rationale for colonialism that Kipling expresses is the idea that the colonizers will be improving and civilizing the natives of their colonies.  The French referred to this as their...

In 1907 Rudyard Kipling accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature.  The prize motivation is thus stated: In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of...

Here's a list: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1888) , Under the Deodars, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkie (1888) , Life's...