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Futility and horrors of war
- By contrasting the indifference of the hyaenas with the vulnerability of the soldiers, the poem underscores the futility and horrors of war. The poem also reflects the societal attitudes of its time period, when war was often glorified and soldiers were hailed as heroes.
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ORG Volume 8, page 5148 lists this poem as Verse No.1101. It was first published in The Years Between in 1919. See also David Alan Richards, p. 252 for further details of publication. It is collected in: 1. Inclusive Verse1919 2. Definitive Verse1940 3. The Sussex EditionVolume 33, page 395 4. The Burwash Edition, Volume 26 5. The Works of Rudyard ...
Kipling is using the gruesome image, remembered from the South African War, of hyaenas digging up corpses on the battlefield after the fighting was done, as—in his own words in a letter to his American publisher, Frank Doubleday in March 1918— As Kipling would have remembered, in South Africa the corpses were buried in shallow graves as they fell, ...
[Title] Hyaenas: animals of the family Hyaenidae Carnivora. Although in some ways close to cats anatomically, they are similar to wild dogs and wolves in habits. They also eat carrion. [Verse 1] kites: in this context, birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, scavengers and hunters. eve: poetic and archaic, evening. [Verse 2] whit:the least possib...
And they know that the dead are safer meat. Than the weakest thing alive. (For a goat may butt, and a worm may sting, And a child will sometimes stand; But a poor dead soldier of the King. Can never lift a hand.) They whoop and halloo and scatter the dirt. Until their tushes white. Take good hold in the army shirt,
The hyena signifies his own gradual awareness of death, which comes, like the hyena, closer and closer. Harry later says death can appear as a hyena rather than as a scythe and skull. When Harry dies, the hyena makes a "strange, human, almost crying sound," signaling the final futility of Harry's dreams.
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The hyaenas, devoid of moral qualms, feast on the corpses of soldiers, indifferent to their identities or causes of death. This stark imagery highlights the dehumanizing nature of war and the brutal cycle of life and death that consumes the battlefield.
AFTER the burial—parties leave And the baffled kites have fled; The wise hyænas come out at eve To take account of our dead. How he died and why he died I WILL let loose against you the… I will call in the Jungle to stam… The roofs shall fade before it, The house
