Verse of the Week
We are hoping to prepare a list of themes in the published verse. There is already such a resource on the website for the prose, though it seems to be little used.
Earlier work on the ‘Verse Themes’ has produced a spreadsheet with far too many headings – signalling what Donald Mackenzie called ‘frames and layers of meaning’. There might appear to be a single label – ‘animals’ or ‘India’, but imagine someone looking for a suitable piece to illustrate a point, knowing that there is one at the back of their mind.
How would you characterise this apparently simple little piece? Where would you classify it? ‘Astrology’? ‘Fate’? ‘Courage’?
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_pregnant_suns.htm
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