Rudyard Kipling Research Paper

Rudyard Kipling was a famous English writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and short stories for children. Rudyard Kipling was born in an English family in Bombay, India. He was sent back to England for education when he was six years old. He attended the United Service College, which trained young men mainly for military careers. He returned to India at age sixteen in 1882. He rejoined his parents and worked as a reporter for seven years. These experiences influenced both his early fiction and his masterpiece. Many of his early poems appeared in 1886; the stories were published as small volumes, marketed in India railway stations in 1888. Books such as ‘Plain

In 1892, Kipling married an American woman, and the couple moved to Vermont in the United States. Their two daughters were born there and he first got the inspiration of writing a story about a boy called Mowgli and his animal friends. Later he wrote a series of stories on the same theme, publishing them as ‘The Jungle Book’ (1894). Because of a family dispute, he unable to adjust to life in America, Kipling returned to England in 1896. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honors, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling’s poems and stories were extraordinarily popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, but after World War I his reputation as a serious writer suffered through his being widely viewed as a jingoistic imperialist. “If” is a poem written in 1895 and published in Rewards and Fairies. It is written in the form of paternal advice to his son. As poetry, “If” is a literary example of Victorian era stoicism. Here is a part of the