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“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind —
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.
Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!"
- Mood: Dark, Sad.
- Theme: courage, Perseverance, And Sacrifice.
Alliteration: This tide (lines 2 4 6 8 10 15)
Think that (line 3)
This tide (lines 13 18)
- Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDBBDBEBBEB
- Assonance: Not With this Wind blowing (line 4)
For What is sunk Will that tide (line 7)
Not even With that Wind blowing (line 13)
Then Hold your Head up all the more (line 14)
- Repetition: "Not this tide" (lines 2 6)
"Not with this wind blowing, and this tide" (lines 4 8)
- Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDBBDBEBBEB
“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
“Has anyone else had word of him?”
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind —
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.
Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!
SUMMARY
"My Boy Jack" is told from the perspective of a mourning parent (Rudyard Kipling) asking for any news of his only son (John Kipling) who was away at War in the Battle of Loos in 1915. After a few months a voice reports to Rudyard that there is no news at this time and that he should be proud of his son that that has sacrificed himself to the wind and the tide (War).
ANALYSIS IN DEPTH PART 1
This poem was to commemorate the loss of Rudyard's son Jack (John) who died in WW1. He was killed inaction in France in the battle of loos 1915 after being their for only 3 weeks. When this was reported towards his family It was a devastating news for Kipling and his wife who also lost there daughter Josephine in 1899 to pneumonia. Kipling had this Guilt inside of him because he always encouraged his son to go to the military and felt that it was his responsibility because he lost his son. John wanted to join the Royal Navy but was refused due to poor eyesight. Kipling's guilt can be seen in his words published after his son's death : "if any questions why we died, tell them, because your fathers lied".
ANALYSIS IN DEPTH PART 2
In the poem "my boy jack" one voice asks for news of their son while another voice, states in italics, Offers scant hope. Later the second voice uses the imagery of the receding tide and the blowing wind to create a sense of absence, as in the absence of the son who left for war. This poem awakens the loss felt by parents who lose their children to war especially because WW1 was a particular brutal war. This simple poem summarizes the loss in a very effective fashion. At the end of the poem, the poem offers up some kindness towards the sadness felt by the mothers and fathers who lost their child: "then hold up all the more,/ this/and every tide;/ Because he was the son you bore,/ and gave to that wind blowing and that tide!"
-Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Born 30 December 1865 died 18 January 1939.
-Used to be an English short story writer, poet, and novelist .
- He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story.
-Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the united Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s but in a slower rate and with less success than before.
- He was put in many famous articles including TIME making him more popular.
- He wrote The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) ,"The White Man's Burden" (1899) and many short stories,
-Various writers, most notably Edmund Candler, were strongly influenced By Kipling's writing.
- In the year 1907 he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize of Literature, he became the youngest recipient to win this award.