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Kipling gained renown throughout the world as a poet and storyteller. He was also known as a leading supporter of the British Empire. As apparent from his stories and poems, Kipling interested himself in the romance and adventure which he found in Great Britain's colonial expansion.

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Rudyard Kipling

Song of the Dynamo

How do I know what Order brings
Me into being?
I only know, if you do certain things,
I must become your Hearing and your Seeing;
Also your Strength, to make great wheels go round,
And save your sons from toil, while I am bound!
What do I care how you dispose
The Powers that move me?
I only know that I am one with those
True Powers which rend the firmament above me,
And, harrying earth, would save me at the last-
But that your coward foresight holds me fast!
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  • William Ernest Henley — contemporary (Henley published Kipling's early work in the Scots Observer)
  • Robert Service — influence (Service's ballad style was shaped by Kipling; he was known as 'The Canadian Kipling')
  • Robert Louis Stevenson — contemporary (Stevenson praised Kipling as the most promising young writer of the era)
  • Robert Frost — stylistic (Both mastered accessible narrative verse; Frost admired Kipling's dramatic monologues)
  • George Gordon Byron — Border ballad tradition and narrative verse; Carrington compared Kipling's rise to Byron's after Childe Harold
  • Wilfred Owen — Fellow WWI poet whose work addresses the same conflict and generation
  • Kahlil Gibran — Shared exploration of life wisdom and the nature of work
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson — Military and imperial themes in narrative ballad form
  • Lewis Carroll — contemporary (Victorian narrative-verse contemporaries who each built large corpora bridging adult and children's verse)

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