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Beck Quotes Kipling, Left Despises Poetry Thinking It's His |
2010-06-10 |
In his second hour Glenn had more fun with a handful of the 512 comments left at a Huffington Post review of the newly released trailer promoting Glenn's book "The Overton Window" due out five days from now. Glenn knows that anything with his name attached to it will attract derisive comments. And it certainly did, with most of the brainiac commenters on the Left mocking the rhyme used in the book's trailer. But what these people who are so arrogant in their ignorance didn't know is that the words are from the pen of Rudyard Kipling. And Glenn does a masterful job of explaining it in the context of today. Perfection! Well, almost. Glen thinks that the "Gods of the Copybook Headings" mentioned in the poem are the progressives of Kiplings time pushing left wing ideas to children in their copy books. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Copybook Heading are held up by Kipling as the great universal truths being left behind by people following the "Gods of the Marketplace, i.e., pop culture and the media. Other than that, he was great. The left has long despised Kipling without reading his works, as they despise any other knowledge not written by their own kind. AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" is a poem published by Rudyard Kipling in 1919. The central message of the poem is that basic and unvarying aspects of human nature will always re-emerge in every society. The copybook headings to which the title refers were proverbs or maxims printed at the top of 19th century British schoolboys' notebook pages. The students had to write them by hand repeatedly down the page. |
Posted by: Anonymoose |
#3 I've got a few more candidates, Sgt. Mom, (Jane Austen, anyone?) but I've even got Mr. Kipling's children's tales in my bookcases. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2010-06-10 22:50 |
#2 I have always adored Kipling - as a writer he is so up there. As the poet of brutal experience and reality, there is none better. I know - he has been so unpopular among the very modern canon - but for someone who wrote about people who went and did very boring,yet necessary jobs, and could tell a ripping good story (TheMan Who Would Be King) And his range and voice when it came to telling stories by various characters was perfectly breathtaking. He has astonishing applicability now and over the last hundred years. He and Mark Twain are my personal gods and guides when it comes to telling a story. |
Posted by: Sgt.Mom 2010-06-10 21:15 |
#1 Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more. That's pretty much the gist of the current economic crisis. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-10 17:32 |