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Soldier, Soldier (poem)
Soldier, Soldier is a poem by Rudyard Kipling from Barrack-Room Ballads The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works, including the poems " Gu .... The lyrics of the poem are not directly related to the traditional ballad " Soldier, soldier won't you marry me" and instead begin "Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don't you march with my true love?"Goat for Azazel: A World War II Story - Page 232 1469111802 George Oscar Lee - 1999 "There is the action and I am still here thought Paul to himself. Killing the time Paul opened his book by Rudyard Kipling and reread some of its poetry. One about “Soldier, Soldier” struck home. “Soldier, Soldier come from the wars, " References {{reflist Works by Rudyard Kipling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the ''Jungle Book'' duology ('' The Jungle Book'', 1894; '' The Second Jungle Book'', 1895), ''Kim'' (1901), the '' Just So Stories'' (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include " Mandalay" (1890), " Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), " The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story.Rutherford, Andrew (1987). General Preface to the Editions of Rudyard Kipling, in "Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies", by Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".Rutherford, Andrew ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrack-Room Ballads
The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works, including the poems " Gunga Din", "Tommy", " Mandalay", and " Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the '' Scots Observer'' in the first half of 1890, and collected in ''Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses'' in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in '' The Seven Seas'' under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War, titled "Service Songs" and published in ''The Five Nations'' (1903), can be considered part of the Ballads, as can a number of other uncollected pieces. Defining the canon While two volumes of Kipling's poems are clearly labelled as "Barrack-Room Ballads", identifying which poems should be grouped in this way can be complex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
"Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" is a traditional song, Roud number 489. Fresnostate university gives the earliest date as 1903 in America. It was printed in "Games and Songs of American Children" by William Wells Newell. However the song was collected many times over in a short period of time, including Cecil Sharp in 1917, Anne Gilchrist in Scotland in 1919 and Seamus Ennis in Ireland. Among many arrangements, Peter Pears made an arrangement of the song in 1936. Lyrics The main story of the song concerns a woman asking a soldier to marry her, but he says he cannot as he has no nice clothing to put on (hat, coat, boots, etc.). She decides to give the soldier, from her grandfather's old chest which contains his best clothes, each item he asks for. Each verse refers to a different article of clothing. In the last verse, she asks him once again to marry her, but the soldier, all dressed in the woman's grandfather's clothing, refuses once more – as he is already married. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
