03-22-2014, 12:41 AM
Thank you for reading, yes Kipling is a favourite of mine, sure, he wrote some jingoistic pieces to engage the punters after all he had a family to support by his writing alone but he wrote some real gems too. The Barrack room Ballads for example, which gave a voice to the ordinary soldier which had never been done before and still have a lot of truth today.
The poem is of Kipling as an old man musing on nostalgic images of India in a series of flashbacks.
Simla or Shimla (it can be spelt either way) was a popular hill station for the British to escape the heat of the Indian summer. Echo of strings; the dying notes of the orchestra.
On the whole I prefer a straightforward style of writing with the emphasis on the content because I feel that it engages with the reader i.e. I am not trying to impress the academics, I leave that to others. I am a bit slapdash with punctuation as you pointed out, something to work on.
Thank you for reading and the advice.
Regard Cari.
The poem is of Kipling as an old man musing on nostalgic images of India in a series of flashbacks.
Simla or Shimla (it can be spelt either way) was a popular hill station for the British to escape the heat of the Indian summer. Echo of strings; the dying notes of the orchestra.
On the whole I prefer a straightforward style of writing with the emphasis on the content because I feel that it engages with the reader i.e. I am not trying to impress the academics, I leave that to others. I am a bit slapdash with punctuation as you pointed out, something to work on.
Thank you for reading and the advice.
Regard Cari.