Rudyard Kipling Research Paper

Rudyard Kipling is considered one of the greatest Victorian poets ever. His incredible construction of poems and children's stories which he wrote give us a glimpse of this incredible man who has many famous poems and stories to his name. Despite his poetry not being acknowledged at a young age, once Kipling moved to England he found himself much more support and respect, which coincided with a period in which he wrote some of his greatest poems. After relocating to East Essex about a decade later, he began to change the style of his stories to cause some imagination in the children who would be reading or listening to them. Also, he was not a poet who would write outside of his beliefs and change things to get more people to read his poems. Rather, Kipling demonstrated honesty and compassion in his poems, which actually caused him to be disliked by many for what they considered to be an outlandish political view. However, this trait is viewed by many, including me, as an important trait for a poet to demonstrate, because poetry was not created for people to have a job and make money; in fact,

He wrote about things which he dealt with in everyday life, things which he was interested in, and things which he felt like bringing up. The poems which I chose- the 'Absent Minded Beggar', the 'Rabbi's Song', 'Zion', and the 'School Song'- all demonstrate these aspects mentioned above. In the Absent Minded Beggar, Kipling brings up something that I'm sure he had experience with- beggars who just ask for money. and can't do much else, while everything that he isn't doing is taken care of for him, yet, all he does is stick out his hat and say pay. Kipling was not afraid to go and bring up something which although some of the population loathed, many had been in the past. Also, the way Kipling presents the poems is genius, with 4 stanzas, each one causing the reader's imagination to turn on and really think about the