Rudyard Kipling Research Paper

Not many people possess the ability to take a pen and let their emotions and memories spill onto their paper with vivid imagery or finesse. However the renowned author and poet, Rudyard Kipling, stands above the rest when it comes to expressing himself through his writing. Born in Bombay, India on December 30th, 1865, Rudyard Kipling was the mastermind who wrote “The Jungle Book” and “The Man Who Would Be King”. Not only was he famous for writing adventurous stories, but he was also highly praised for his poems. These high quality poems include, “If-”, “The White Man’s Burden”, and “Gunga Din”. “The Way through the Woods” is also an exceptional poem, and in my opinion, it is one of his best works. In “The Way through the Woods”, a road which had been shut down. The road slowly

Rudyard Kipling makes it about following your goals before you make decisions that may prove to be obstacles or “trees” in your path. Each line is important to the poem. The first few lines talks about how there use to be a road in the area about seventy years ago which became covered by vegetation. I had interpreted those lines as the path or “road” to the speaker's goals which are being slowly clouded over time by different obstacles. The ninth line in my eyes means only the speaker, called the keeper in the poem, is the only one who still knows there was a path to their goals. The second stanza in general is trying to explain that the speaker will always have a faint memory of how to get to his goals even if it is obstructed by many obstacles. This is expressed by the ghostly figure of the horse and its rider. The rider must be the reminiscence of the speaker who had first made his goals. The girl with the skirt must have been a significant part of his life, probably his beloved. The final line explains that there is no other way for the speaker to reach his goals. It's all finished for him and he has no chance to retake the goal that he