my boy jack book summary : Poems Study Guide. Although Kipling is perhaps most famous for his short stories like "," he was just as famed for his verse as his prose. His work, which is staggering in number, consists of such major poems as "If", "The White Man's Burden", "The Ballad of East and West", "", "", and "". He wrote poetry throughout his life and published in newspapers, magazines, and collections and anthologies. Kipling's reputation has shifted throughout the years; more contemporary readers and scholars find many of his poems difficult to love or respect due to their embrace and sometimes-promulgation of the imperialist, racist, and misogynistic attitudes that prevailed during the day. However, during his own time he garnered more respect and a great deal of popularity. T.S. Eliot wrote of him: "[He had] an immense gift for using words, an amazing curiosity and power of observation with his mind and with all his senses, the mask of the entertainer, and beyond that a queer gift of second sight, of transmitting messages from elsewhere, a gift so disconcerting when we are made aware of it that thenceforth we are never sure when it is not present: all this makes Kipling a writer impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to belittle." One of Britain's most famous writers, E.M. Forster, took up the subject of Kipling's poetry in a very insightful 1909 lecture. He began by expressing the assumption that Kipling was dull and vulgar, and countered that with his own perspective that "putty, brass and paint are there, but with them is fused, at times inextricably, a precious metal." Forster saw Kipling as very much "alive" and lauded him for this. He separated the poems into five general categories: poems in narrative form, poems relating to military matters, poems inspired by his time in India, poems about imperialism, and poems about childhood. The poems in narrative form include "The Ballad of East and West", "Tomlinson", and "Mary Gloster". They are some of his greatest work and usually stand alone (i.e., they were not included in collections). They are easy to read and comprehend and express large and universal themes. They are also, as Forster writes, "inspired by passion". The military poems, like "", "Danny Deever", and "Gentlemen-Rankers", are lively, bold, and vulgar. They are mostly contained in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses . Forster writes that they are "best when they are simplest and are expressing the lively good humour of simple men. How perfectly Kipling knows his business here." The works about India are less famous and tend to be less successful. They are heavily inspired by Kipling's youth in India. However, in India Kipling felt the greatest stirrings of religion he would experience; "" can be grouped in this period. The poems of imperialism, like "The White Man's Burden", can be more problematic and have a "hardness of touch". Forster comments "An Empire is a very difficult subject for poetry. Unless the poet possesses quite exquisite taste and deep inspiration, he will fall into Kipling's error, and praise it because it is big and can smash up its enemies." This is precisely why many of Kipling's poems, and in some ways, the poet himself, have been discredited. Finally, the poems about childhood are some of Kipling's most charming and gracious, and in them the poet seems most comfortable. Kipling's poetry collections include: Schoolboy Lyrics (1881); Echoes (1884); Departmental Ditties (1886), Barrack-Room Ballads (1890); The Seven Seas (1896); An Almanac of Twelve Sports (1898); (1903); Collected Verse (1907); Songs from Books (1912); and The Years Between (1919). A Minister’s Troubled Son Takes Center Stage in Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Jack’ When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The good news about “Jack,” the fourth in Marilynne Robinson’s series of novels about the residents of the small town of Gilead, Iowa, is announced in its title. John Ames “Jack” Boughton, the miscreant son of the town’s Presbyterian minister, is among the more memorable characters in recent American literature. We’ve met him before in these novels. (The previous ones are “Gilead,” “Home” and “Lila.”) He’s a welcome disturber of the peace. Come on in, Jack. Robinson’s latest follows him to St. Louis in the years after World War II. No longer young, his hair thinning, he drinks and can’t keep a job. He’s been in prison for a crime he didn’t commit but easily could have. He sleeps in boardinghouses and sometimes rough, in the local cemetery. He retains an almost decent suit of clothes, however, and a certain seedy charm. He picks up a nickname he dislikes: Slick. Jack meets and falls in love with Della Miles, a high school teacher and also the child of a minister. Della is Black. Her father despises Jack. This is the era of Jim Crow and strictly enforced miscegenation laws, a milieu Robinson evokes with small, deft strokes. Their love, as readers of “Gilead,” which also touches on this story, are aware, is likely doomed. But then, with Jack, everything is doomed, all the time. We know this because he and the author tell us so at every opportunity. When Jack opens his mouth, he tends to say the same six or seven things, as if Robinson were pulling a string in his back. “I’m a bum.” “I’m an unsavory character.” “I ruin things.” “You could think of me as a thief.” “Within five minutes I’ll have come up with a way to disillusion you.” “I might not reflect well on you.” “You’re involving yourself with a ne’er-do-well.” And most dramatically, he thinks to himself: “I am the Prince of Darkness.” He’s self-plastered with poison labels, a linguistic crown of thorns. If Jack is Satan (he’s not — we’re meant to see the decency in him, too), he’s a sad-sack Satan. He resembles the brawling and sardonic Randle McMurphy in Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” played by Jack Nicholson in the movie, after the lobotomy. This is probably the place to say that, like a lot of readers I know, I’m divided about Robinson’s novels. On the one hand, there’s “Gilead,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 and which patiently accrues grace and power. On the other hand, to open her other novels, including this one, is largely to enter a remote, airless, life-denying, vaguely pretentious and mostly humorless universe, where it is always Sunday morning and never Saturday night, where the same bespoke arguments about religious feeling are rehashed, where a lonely reader enters, sniffs the penitential air and asks: Who died? Jack is a charmer who is seldom allowed to charm. We’re told he plays barrelhouse piano in bars, that he cuts loose on payday, that he’s a gifted and inveterate criminal. His motto might be carpe noctem. Yet we’re not allowed to see whatever jubilation he finds on the night side of life. He’s a moth, ostensibly drawn to flame, yet rigid because there’s a pin through his thorax. We witness only the hangover, moral and otherwise, the downcast eyes on the morning after. In this novel, he’s the dullest bad boy in the history of bad boys. He’s made to sit perpetually in the corner, facing the wall. I thought about this dead spot (life) in Robinson’s novels during the scenes in which Jack and Della talk about “Hamlet,” and in those in which Jack later reads and considers the play. Jack and Della are both big readers; they dabble in verse; their courtship includes conversations about poetry. Their “Hamlet” discussion takes place during an implausible overnight the two of them spend in a locked whites-only cemetery. They consider some of the plot points and ideas in the play. Jack later sees similarities in their predicament to that of Shakespeare’s Gertrude and Claudius. Can deep love triumph over, and in some sense negate, crimes and sins? This is all interesting enough. But the reason we still read “Hamlet,” and the reason its ideas remain worth talking about, is because the play is acid- bright on the page. The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, in her journals, remarked that Shakespeare speaks intimately to us across centuries because he was, in her indelible phrase, a “cheerful, nose-picking whoremaster.” That is, as Murdoch’s biographer, Peter J. Conradi, explains, paraphrasing her thoughts, Shakespeare “created not out of simple high-mindedness but, genius apart, out of an intimate and humble understanding of base emotions, of lust and rage, hatred, envy, jealousy and the will-to-power as well as astonishment at ordinariness.” You rarely sense base emotion of any variety in “Jack.” Jack and Della, unlike Stanley and Stella, are not allowed, for example, to revel in anything as simple as lust. They shyly titillate only each other’s souls. Della, in her deep need to shake off the expectations of family and society, is a fascinating character, and should resonate far more than she does. Neither she nor Jack seems to have independent life. You sense them placing their heads directly into the halters the author has made for them. . Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI. Director. Writer. Studios. Country. Language. Alternative Title. Genres. 93 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film. Popular reviews. If the Dursleys sent Harry off to war instead of Hogwarts. another war film far too ordinary to claim victory with its rehashed narrative battles, My Boy Jack uses the tiresome “old man” like Gatsby uses the tiresome “old sport.” as it is also a visual memoir of journalist and The Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling and his family during WWI, it largely fails in making these popular people interesting with its uneven script, eerie (rather than emotive) close-ups, and poor-quality slo-mo and try-hard music befitting but lacking for its TV film category. the resentment and grief it tries to uproot from its tragedy often misses the emotional target it aims at. but some patches of interesting themes appear now and then whenever it concerns itself with harmful patriotism, a one-off… This was my 123rd and final movie that I watched in October. I have two goals for 2014. to watch it least one movie a day for the entire year and to reach 1,000 movies for the year. After September it did not look like I was going to reach that 1,000 movie goal for the year. Well. after this strong October showing, I am back on track to reach 1,000 movies for the year. My Boy Jack is a pretty good movie about World War I, author Rudyard Kipling and Kipling's son Jack, who is sent to France to fight in the trenches. Daniel Radcliffe plays the son. while David Haig plays the famous author. Radcliffe is good in his supporting role. but Haig really shines as Rudyard Kipling. This movie shows that war is hell. not only for the soldiers but their families too. Final thought: An entertaining movie that might surprise you too! totally fine. watched this in undergrad for extra credit. Scavenger hunt #60 – March 2020 Watch any film starring an actor who got their start in one of the Harry Potter films. "Do you want a story?" This is a wonderfully written story by David Haig (based in fact) and well acted. War bits are brief but illustrative. Gosh, I just love Carey Mulligan. And both David Haig (as Rudyard Kipling) and Cattrall as his wife, are wonderful. Daniel Radcliffe does exceptionally well with this role, as it is, and I was only reminded of Harry Potter when he puts his specs on. There was of course due attention to this very aspect, as his myopia is central to the story. The only other time Harry Potter popped into my head was in contrast to his typcast: i thought, "Harry Potter sporting a 'stache and smoking a cigarette!" All in all an enjoyable watch. Earnest, straightforward, moving war story based in fact. Great work from the cast especially Dan Radcliffe, Carey Mulligan and Kim Cattrall. It's a BBC film made for television and looks it, and it overuses an unnecessary music score, but the message is powerful. "I can feel his head on my chest. I can feel his heat against me." Daniel Radcliffe proves that Harry Potter wasn't a one done deal. He does an amazing job in this film, and this is a story that I believe deserves to be told more. Solid well done little story. Solid acting. Probably not going to be that memorable, though. In the poster Daniel looks more like Hitler than I could admit. half of me thinks this was good, other half thinks it should burn in hell. MY BOY JACK schildert die Geschichte des Sohnes von Dschungelbuch-Autor Rudyard Kipling, der trotz seiner schweren Sehbehinderung in den ersten Weltkrieg zog und dort bald fiel. Dargestellt von Daniel Radcliffe, folgt der junge Mann der naiven Erwartungshaltung seines Vaters, der ihn aufrichtig liebt. Sein tragisches Schicksal stürzt die Familie in eine tiefe Krise. dan’s mustache . that’s it that’s the review. Recent reviews. i still don’t know if his name is john or jack. this isn’t the film’s fault but i had to watch his death scene four times and that annoyed me. Happy Birthday, Carey Mulligan! I ran out of your leading lady films to watch, but you were excellent in this; as was everyone else. Britbox! Who knew! II. Dünya Savaşı'nda Alman tehditine karşı durmaya çalışan İngilte'den madalyonun farklı yüzlerini anlatan bir hikaye. Savaşa gidenler kadar onları gönderenler de zor zamanlar geçirirler. Bunu bu yapımda bulabiliyorsunuz. Bu açıdan II. Dünya Savaşı filmleri içerisinde çok farklı olmasa da geride kalanların hikayesini anlatması açısından beğenimi kazandı. Daniel Radcliffe'i Harry Potter karakteriyle o kadar çok özdeşleştirmişim ki bu filmde 18 yaşına yeni basan Teğmen rolünde görünce doğruyu söylemek gerekirse biraz garipsedim. Karakter için doğru seçim ama bazı oyuncuların üstüne yapışan etiket misali bu durum seyirciyi de biraz etkiliyor. Filmde yaşanan olayların gerçek bir olaya dayandığını da belirteyim. Olayların nasıl sonuçlanacağına dair kafanızda bir çok soru beliriyor. Bu merak hissini canlı tutmayı başaran bir film. Мой мальчик Джек. Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I. Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I. Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I. Director. Director. See production, box office & company info. See production, box office & company info. 4 wins & 10 nominations total. Photos 5. Top cast. Director. See production, box office, & company info. More like this. Storyline. A young man fights for his country. TV-14. Did you know. Rudyard Kipling: Have you news of my boy Jack?/ Not this tide./ When d'you think that he'll come back?/ Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Has any one else had word of him?/ Not this tide./ For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?/ None this tide,/ Nor any tide,/ Except he did not shame his kind-/ Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide./ Then hold your head up all the more,/ This tide,/ And every tide;/ Because he was the son you bore,/ And gave to that wind blowing and that tide! User reviews 38. It's 1914. John Kipling (Daniel Radcliffe) volunteers for the Navy but is rejected for poor eyesight. His famous writer father Rudyard Kipling (David Haig) is a war hawk. Rudyard eagerly pulls strings to get him into the Army which angers his beloved sister Elsie (Carey Mulligan). He leads a platoon into battle and goes MIA. Rudyard and his wife (Kim Cattrall) go in search for their missing son. Rudyard Kipling is a fascinating war hawk. David Haig gives a brilliant performance. Radcliffe and Mulligan do good work. I really like the first half. The movie stops being interesting after Jack goes missing. The story drags and ultimately doesn't have a good climax. Jack going over the top is probably a much better climax. The search doesn't have enough drama. About the author. This is the page of Tonie Holt on 24symbols. Here you can see and read his/her books. Other books that might interest you. Women Who Kill - A Chilling. Al Cimino. 1 1 0. The New Negro - Readings on Race. Gene Andrew Jarrett, Henry Louis. 0 1 0. Cursed: An Anthology. Neil Gaiman, Christina Henry. 0 8 0. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Joseph Murphy. 4 33 0. Fourteen Little Red Huts and. Andrei Platonov. 1 1 0. Freeman's: The Future of New. John Freeman. 0 1 0. Are you sure you want to continue? Cancel Accept. There was an error reconnecting. Please try again. There is a session opened in another device. 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