Rudyard Kipling was a prolific poet, novelist and journalist and one of the most well-known Victorian writers of his time in 1907 Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his great body of work which included 'The Jungle Book' and his enduring poetic masterpiece 'If'.
This poem is a sober call to arms at the outset of WW1 (1914-18). Kipling had been warning for a decade of the need to prepare, to resist the growing menace of Germany, and he was in no doubt that this would be a life and death struggle for England. The Indian Ministry of Defence quoted the words "What stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live?" in a 2022 tweet in honour of the Indian army.
Walt Whitman is America’s world poet - a successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. O Captain ! My Captain! is an elegy or mourning poem with the theme that every victory comes with a price. Whitman wrote this poem to honour Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America. Lincoln successfully led his nation through the turmoil of the civil war and brought an end to slavery in America. The speaker states that though the ship (United States) has braved the tough storm of civil war, it has lost its Captain (Abraham Lincoln). The speaker is torn between relief and despair.
Believers hear me say that clarity is better than your faithful course
You live a life
You accuse and slander
Believers in this world you have no humanity no remorse.
We have been slaves for so long you cannot even think yet
I have been a boy
I have been a man
I only left you behind because of what you didn't seem to get.
I have to go now; you couldn't understand I never wanted you to change
Your mind is set
Your life is abandonment
I am sorry I was unable to help you I just wanted you to rearrange.
thoughts about life and who we are where we can be
They lied to you
You are a believer
This is the point this is the key; this is not clarity. Can you still not, see?
If you cannot change soon this planet will die.
Goodbye -from me- Goodbye
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