Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
As a poem, ‘Danny Deever’ does what it has to do, then marches back to Barracks. In the silence afterwards, readers are left to deal with what they have just witnessed.
It’s a perfected horror story.
Rudyard Kipling's 'A Three Part Song'
One of the first poems I remember hearing. I have always admired the way it’s localised in the specific naming of places and plants.
Rudyard Kipling's 'In the Neolithic age'.
This isn’t one of Kipling’s best poems, but it’s fun to read, and the punchline should be recited regularly by all those who write poems and write about them.