The Atlantic

The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling

URING the last two or three years, we have often heard the lament that the Victorian era of poetry was closed; that with the death of Tennyson the last great voice had fallen silent; that only the ...
The Grio

Univ. of Manchester students replace poem featured on campus by well-known racist with with Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’

University of Manchester students took matters into their own hands and painted over a mural of a 1895 poem by Rudyard Kipling because they deemed him as racist, reports The Guardian. The poem titled, ...
Inside Higher Ed

Painting Over Kipling

Students at the University of Manchester painted over a poem by Rudyard Kipling because of what they describe as the British author’s imperialistic and racist writings, replacing it with a poem by the ...
Task & Purpose

‘28 Years Later’ uses the same creepy poem the military uses to scare SERE students

Service members who have gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training, or SERE may get flashbacks from the trailer for the upcoming zombie horror film by Danny Boyle, “28 Years ...
NPR

British Students Paint Over Rudyard Kipling Mural In Protest

Manchester University students painted over a mural of a Rudyard Kipling poem in protest. NPR's Michel Martin talks to student Deej Malik-Johnson and Professor Jan Montefiore about the controversy. In ...