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What is your favorite Kipling poem?



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IacanusNegraeus says...



Kipling is without a doubt my favorite poet of all time, so, for all of you fellow fans of this great poet, I'd love to hear what your favorite poems by him are

(NOTE: Kim and The Jungle Book don't count, since those are novels)

For me, I'd have to say that my favorite is "The Road to Mandalay" (though I also love "Gunga Din"). Of course, "The White Man's Burden" is also a classic, and there's just something so glorious - so characteristically imperial - about that poem's particular cadence.

So, I now dare ask: are there any other Kipling stans out there?
  





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starlitmind says...



I haven't read many poems by him, but I remember in the sixth grade we could memorize his poem "If" for extra credit. If you memorized the whole poem, you could get forty extra credit points, which of course is an insane amount! I guess my teacher really wanted us to memorize the poem cx I still have the poem memorized, for it's quite unforgettable. I really enjoyed reading and memorizing it! I think that one has to be my favourite of his :)
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It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
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