Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling091300105 虞金萍Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King”. His poems include "Mandalay", "Gunga Din", “The Gods of the Copybook Headings". "The White Man's Burden".and "If—" . He was regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".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.“If—“"If—" is a poem written in 1895and first 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 poem.If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,And yet don’t look too good, n or talk too wise:T he word of “if” has appeared fourteen in the po em, every time is apossibility we would meet in our life, including attitude,confiden-ce,patience and willpower. Meanwhile,Kipling madean ideal choice to every “if”. Kipling may not be aware of the influence of the poem in future, but he left a fantastic gift to the world.We arerun after a peaceful place to enscounce our heart of all ages. Let our hearts away filthy. The most important thing we have to learn is to learn to be a man.The Jungle BookThe Jungle Book is a collection of stories. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. The stories was said towritten for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 aged six. A rare first edition of the book with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the N ational Trust’s Wimpole Hall in Cambridge shire in 2010.The tales in the book and also in The Second Jungle Book which includes five further stories about Mowgli are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle."The public have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The best-known of them are the three stories Revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "mancub" Mowgli,who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and succeeded by another.The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting move- ment, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities. Akela, the head wolf in The Jungle Book, has become a senior figure in the movement, the name being traditionally adopted by the leader of each Cub Scout pack.Captains CourageousCaptains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a fishing boat in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition.The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times of 23 November 1892.This story’s main character named Harvey Cheyne .Harvey Cheyne is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, who are over- indulgent parents in San Diego, California. Washed overboard from a transatlanticsteamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the young Harvey Cheyne can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Disko Troop, captain of the We're Here, offers him a job as part of the crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts.Through a series of trials and adventures, the youth learns to adjust to his rough new life and, with the help of his friend, the captain's son Dan Troop, he makes progress. Eventually, the schooner returns to port and Harvey wires his parents. They rush cross-country by their private rail car, given priority over commercial traffic, to Boston, Massachusetts.From there they go to the fishing town of Gloucester to find that their son has matured to become an industrious, serious and considerate young man.Harvey's mother rewards the seaman who initially rescued her son. Harvey's father rewards Captain Troop by hiring his son Dan to work on his prestigious tea clipper fleet. He is delighted at his son's new maturity and their relationship improves, and Harvey decides to begin his career with his father's shipping lines.This novel isn’t famous as The Adventures of Robinson or Gulliver's Travels.However,it leave a deep impression on me.No matter how hard the life is, we have to face it bravely.As long as we are being strong, all the difficulties would be overcome. After all, we are growing up in suffering.Mark Twain had spoken highly of Kipling,considering his works colorful and immortal. Kipling had deep impacted on the aesthetics and values of a generation, and will continue to affect us.。