English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1336 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rudyard Kipling's Verse
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The idea
Rudyard Kipling, born in India, wrote Barrack-Room Ballads in soldiers' voices, "The White Man's Burden" and "Recessional," written for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee with its refrain "Lest we forget." He won the Nobel Prize in nineteen-oh-seven, the first English-language winner.
In practice
Soldiers' ballads, empire, a warning.
Where people slip
"Recessional" warns against imperial pride.
Your place on the trail
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