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What is the meaning of the poem the gods of the copybook headings...
The meaning is pretty straightforward and is, to some extent, an answer to a search for meaning - or, at least, why things happen the way they do. The author (Rudyard Kipling) was an Englishmen who just lost his son in WWI. It is, in some s... Read More »
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What are the "Gods of the Copybook Headings" in Kipling's poem of...
A copybook was, as its name implies, was a book in which school children would copy, among other things, the alphabet and proverbs to refine his or her penmenship. Kipling is refering to the sound advice portrayed in the proverbs ("the wage... Read More »
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"THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS", who do these "GODS" represen...
The lessons of life's experiences, the unchanging truths which, try as we may, we can't change or avoid, the inevitabilities of certain situations. The piece of toast that falls, and just when you think it isn't going to land butter side do... Read More »
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings is a poem published by Rudyard Kipling in 1919 that foresaw the decline of his country's empire and attributed it to a loss ... More »
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