Rudyard Kiplingwtvanaaa

8/4/2019 Rudyard Kiplingwtvanaaa

1/16

One of the mostmemorable Englishwriters of all time


2/16

Familyof Joseph Rudyard

Kipling Mother Alice MacDonald Kipling Father John Lockwood Kipling

Sister Alice Kipling Fleming


3/16


4/16

Early Life

30 December 1865 in Bombay, inBritish India

Captain and Mrs. Holloway - LorneLodge

Paradise at Aunt Georgies and herhusband

1878 - admitted to the United ServicesCollege


5/16

Bombay in1865


6/16

Travels & First writings

1883 - visited Simla

thirty-nine stories appeared in the

Gazette included in Plain Tales from the Hills

Kipling's first prose collection

1887 Allahabad in the UnitedProvinces

published six collections of shortstories

1 l th ri ht t hi ix


7/16

Life

London published a novel - The Light that Failed

and on the 18 January 1892

Carrie Balestier (29) and RudyardKipling (26) were married in London

United States

didnt find a country that lived up to his

expectations

the Boer war

increasing harshness of his views


8/16

Josephine John
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naulakha_jsephne_loggia.jpg


9/16

Peak of his career

Nobel Prize in 1907

In 1995 UK's favourite poem If

(1895)


10/16

If RudyardKipling If you can keep your head when allabout you

Are losing theirs and blaming it onyou;If you can trust yourself when allmen doubt you,But make allowance for theirdoubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by

waiting,Or, being lied about, don't deal inlies,Or, being hated, don't give way tohating,And yet don't look too good, nor talktoo wise;

If you can dream - and not makedreams your master;If you can think - and not makethoughts your aim;If you can meet with triumph anddisasterAnd treat those two imposters just

the same;If you can bear to hear the truth

'

If you can make one heap of all yourwinningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your

beginningsAnd never breath a word about yourloss;If you can force your heart and nerveand sinew

To serve your turn long after they aregone,

And so hold on when there is nothingin youExcept the Will which says to them:"Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keepyour virtue,Or walk with kings - nor lose the

common touch;If neither foes nor loving friends can


11/16

Death and legacy

Died on 18 January 1936 of aperforated duodenal ulcer

Buried in Poets' Corner

A crater on the planet Mercury wouldbe named after Kipling

A swastika printed on covers

associated with a picture of anelephant carrying a lotus flower

1935 warning of the danger Nazi

Germany


12/16


13/16

Bibliography

The Story of the Gadsbys(1888)

Plain Tales from the Hills(1888)

The Phantom Rickshaw andother Eerie Tales(1888)

The Light that Failed (1890)

"Mandalay"(1890) (poetry)

"Gunga Din" (1890) (poetry)

The Jungle Book(1894) (shortstories)

The Second Jungle Book(1895) (short stories)

"If" (1895) (poetry)

The seven seas (1896)

"Recessional"(1897)

The Day's Work(1898)

Stalky & Co. (1899)

"The White Man's Burden"(1899)

Kim (1901)

Just So Stories (1902)

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)

Life's Handicap (1915)(short stories)

Limits and Renewals(1932)

The Gods of the CopybookHeadin s 1919


14/16

The Jungle Book - 1894

using animals in ananthropomorphicmanner to give

moral lessons allegories of the

politics and societyof the time

its moral tone -motivational bookby the Cub Scouts


15/16

Kim (novel) - 1901

political conflict between Russiaand Britain in Central Asia

detailed portrait The reader is left to decide whether

Kim will henceforth follow theprideful road of the Great Game,the spiritual way of TibetanBuddhism, or a combination of thetwo


16/16

Thank you for

listening!

Rudyard Kiplingwtvanaaa

Documents

Transcript of Rudyard Kiplingwtvanaaa