greykit.poetry — #satire

• 1919 [rudyard-kipling] The Gods of the Copybook Headings

  Kipling’s bleak parable — the plain truths you can deny, ignore, or outlaw, but never escape.

  #satire#prophecy#1910s
• 1902 [rudyard-kipling] The Islanders
  The Five Nations

  A savage rebuke to a complacent England — “the flannelled fools at the wicket … the muddied oafs at the goals.”

  #empire#england#satire#1900s
• 1890 [rudyard-kipling] Tommy
  Barrack-Room Ballads

  The soldier scorned in peacetime and cheered in war answers back.

  #soldiers#satire#1890s