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Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai on December 30, 1865, was a renowned author and the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He is best known for works like The Jungle Book and has been criticized for his colonialist views. Kipling's literary contributions reflect the themes of the late Victorian era, including realism and imperialism, and he lived until January 18, 1936.

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Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai on December 30, 1865, was a renowned author and the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He is best known for works like The Jungle Book and has been criticized for his colonialist views. Kipling's literary contributions reflect the themes of the late Victorian era, including realism and imperialism, and he lived until January 18, 1936.

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Rudyard Kipling

World-famous author, true laureate of the Seventh Nobel


Prize in Literature, Candidate for the
British Poet Laureateship(but declined), Refuser of the
Knighthood(several times), Writer of The Jungle Book,
Child of the British India, English short-story writer,
poet, and novelist
Another picture probably in
old age
Though I don’t know where
is this, but this building
should be in Mumbai.
Born December 30 1865-----IN
MUMBAI
Died January 18 1936, in LONDON

享年七十岁
A seventy year’s
life
1907
1865 Nobe 1914 1918 193
Born l WWI WWI 6
prize deat
h
His death had been announced
previous than his actual death:

“I've just read that I am dead.


Don't forget to delete me from
your list of subscribers.”

By Rudyard
Kipling
Early Education
In January 1878, Kipling
was admitted to the United
Services College at
Westward Ho!
A school recently founded
to prepare boys for the
army.

You didn’t see it wrong——the exclamation


mark is part of this town’s name
Academic failure
However, near the end of
his schooling, it was
decided that Kipling did
not have the academic
ability to get into Oxford
University on a
scholarship.

This cat does nothing about this page. I


don’t know how it comes in.
Kipling returned to India
From 1883 to 1889, Kipling
worked in British India for
local newspapers such as
the Civil and Military
Gazette

(this newspaper is only


remembered because
Kipling once worked in
Still, I don’t know how does this cat there).
come in. I think it’s not the same cat.
To London
Kipling left India on 9 March
1889.
He went the other side around
the globe to England via China,
Japan and America, instead of
the shorter way via the Suez.
So, technically speaking,
Kipling did travel around the
globe, following the same
route of Mr. Fogg in Around
the Globe in eighty-days by
Jules Verne.
Nobel Prize
In 1907, Rudyard Kipling was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,
as the first English-language writer to
receive the prize, and also the
youngest recipient to date.
The citation of the Nobel Prize
committee was: “In consideration of
the power of observation, originality
of imagination, virility of ideas and
remarkable talent for narration that
characterize the creations of this
world-famous author.”

IN OTHER WORDS, KIPLING


WROTE SOMETHING WELL ABOUT
THE JAPENESE. More cats in here. The round head
is quite like the shape of the medal.
More cats coming
The jungle book
Apart from being a poet,
Kipling wrote various pieces of
novels and short-stories,
including The jungle book, a
collection of fables published in
1894.
Most of the characters are
animals such as Shere Khan the
tiger and Baloo the bear.
(Kipling seemed to be quite
“normal” as a novelist. See
next slide for the “abnormal”
part.)
“Kipling remains politically toxic”
“Kipling has been variously labelled
a colonialist
a jingoist
(disproving, someone who believes that
their own country is always best)
a racist
a misogynist
(a man who hates women or believes that
men are much better than women)
a right-wing imperialist warmonger”

Remarked by Charles McGrath in the New Yorker I think the cats start to run away.
The White Man's Burden
The poem is about the
The first stanza: Philippine–American War
Take up the White Man's (1899–1902) that exhorts the
burden— United States to assume
Send forth the best ye breed colonial control of the Filipino
— people and their country.
Go bind your sons to exile This poem also suggests: “the
To serve your captives' need; white race is morally obliged to
To wait in heavy harness civilize the non-white peoples of
On fluttered folk and wild— planet Earth through
Your new-caught, sullen colonialism.”
peoples, Imperialism
Half devil and half child.
Colonialis
m
Literary era
Apart from all above, Rudyard
Kipling is still one of the best-
known of the late Victorian
poets and story-tellers.
The characteristics of poetry in
the Victorian era includes a
focus on realism and a close link
to novel and prose.
In the late Victorian, however,
war became a popular theme
and after the British military
failures in the Boer War of 1899–
1902, it amplifies the awareness
of British national decline.
There was a larger war later on, but it’s
not in the Victorian era.
Reflexion?
Kipling's only son John was A short extra from “Epitaphs of the
killed during the World War”:
War I. R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN)
Kipling wrote a poem titled Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still
unshed,
Epitaphs of the War, Cities and men he smote from overhead.
containing the imaginary His deaths delivered, he returned to play
epitaphs of people of all Childlike, with childish things now put away.
kind killed during the war.
One would remember, Kipling was
once in his early years a fanatic for
colonial wars.
(Epitaph is something like
that)
Kipling lived until 1936
He should be able to know Adolf Hitler, who had become the leader of
the Nazi Party and the chancellor in 1933. And something like this……

中文里“卍”为“万字”
A left-facing
swastika, an Indian
symbol of good luck

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