Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

1865-1936

and WW 1

Go on the internet and find at least three things about Rudyard Kipling.

( Please no date of birth or date of death)

Name at least three things you know about WW1

28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918)

Before the First World War erupted across Europe, poems about war used to be… different. Before the trenches and the fields of Flanders, famous war poems were usually focussed on the glories of war and the great honour in battle. 

www.poetryfoundation.org

www.poetryfoundation.org

common form

If any question why we died,

Tell them, because our fathers lied.

r.a.f. (aged eighteen)

Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed,

Cities and men he smote from overhead.

His deaths delivered, he returned to play

Childlike, with childish things now put away.

Why do you think he wrote this?

Is 'My Boy Jack' based on a true story?

Yes it is based on the true story of Rudyard Kipling trying to pull strings and use his influence in high places to get his short-sighted son into the armed forces for the First World War.