Rudyard Kipling: Poems Rudyard Kipling

In Kipling’s Kim, our protagonist fills the role of a hybrid: He is Irish, but born in India. As a result, his life is split in two by the different influences. His duality allows him to fill the various roles that are requested of him. Kim is a...

The Victorian concept of masculinity is one caught up a series of interrelated metaphors relating to the empire and national identity. Throughout the Victorian corpus there are a number of texts that create a metaphorical relationship between...

Rudyard Kipling was regarded by his peers as a fine satirist. Many of the leading wits of his day, including Mark Twain, met him in person and acknowledged him as a peer. One of the things Kipling subtly criticized through his poetry was the...

Rudyard Kipling’s “If-” explores the themes of manhood, hard work, and discipline. The speaker feels that one should have humility, confidence, and several other virtues in order to be a man. Kipling uses literary techniques including anaphora,...

The White Man’s Burden Name Institution The White Man’s Burden Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899) conveys several themes depending on different readers’ interpretations of the poem, and one’s point of view. One of the main themes...

“It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships,” said Albert Memmi in his influential book entitled The Colonizer and the Colonized. This statement...

The clash of cultures is an integral part of the human experience. Since the emergence of civilization, humans have interacted with different cultures through migration, conquest, and trade. The symbiosis of different cultures has led to both...