RUDYARD KIPLING
ANALYSIS
On this page you will find an analysis of each different poem displayed on this site.
A smuggler's song
This poem was written about the smugglers around where Kipling lived and how they operated. It was written as a warning to the reader about smuggling and how to be careful with what you say if you should see them.
This can be seen through the words
"You be careful what you say" and the words "Don't you tell where no one is" this implying to keep the whole smuggling operaton a secret.
The poem is compromised of 8 stanzas and is written in a narrative manner with each stanza covering the same topic. The way the stanzas are written and structured creates a mood in which it takes the reader to a place where you can imagine the sotry being told to a young child about the smugglers and how it is best for one's health to ignore them and their buisness.
The speaker in this poem is Rudyard Kipling. The speaker is addressing the reader or an audience.
The speaker creates mood in where the reader can viualize whats happening in this poem. At this oment in time the speaker is adressing a young child explaining how to act around the smugglers and the guards aswell.
This poem uses different types of rhyme for example in the lines
"...nor use them for your play" and "put the brishwood back again...and they will be gone the next day"
This is an example of end rhyme this is when the same sounding word is used at the end of a line in a stanza.
This poem also uses repetition as the line "watch the wall y darlin while the gentelmen go by" is used to close and open each stanza.
Cities and thrones and powers
This poem was written about how cities rise and fall and how too often we as a species dwell over our own lives so much we miss everything else.
This can be seen through the lines
"Stand in Time's eye, almost as long as flowers which daily die" this implies cities can grow and vanish in the blink of an eye. The lines "She never hears,
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last year's; But with bold countenance, and knowledge small" these lines speak about how we focus too much on our own lives and not enough on everything else.
The poem is compromised of 3 stanzas
and is written in a narrative manner with each stanza covering a different topic that has something in common with the others. The way the stanzas are structured give a certain mood to the reader in which it explains to teh reader the many problems with with our species in a calm collected manner.
The speaker in this poem is Rudyard Kipling. The speaker is addressing the audience or the reader. The speaker creates a mood or a feeling where the reader feels as if he is being taken on a journey through the history of mankind.
This poem uses end rhyme in the second stanza this can be seen in the lines "This season's Daffodil,
She never hears,
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last year's;" this is a simple example of end rhyme.
By the hoof of the wild goat
This poem was written about somebody who has lost there way adn has therefore metaphorically 'fallen from the light of the sun'.
This can be seen through the lines "By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed From the cliff where she lay in the Sun Fell the Stone To the Tarn where the daylight is lost, So she fell from the light of the Sun..." this implies that somebody has lost their way and thus has fallen from light.
THe poem is compromised of 3 stanzas. It is written in a narrative manner as if it was a warning not to lose your way from your true course in life. THe way the stanzas are structured paint an image in your head showing a stone actually being tossed of a cliff and falling from sun and this allows you to see the deeper meaning behind the poem.
THe speaker in this poem is Rudyard Kipling. He is adressing the audience. The speaker creates an image in the readers head showing what is happening.