"Mandalay"

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In this paper, one can realize the power of India to attract westerners along the path of the road of Mandalay. In this poem, Kipling is relating a greater understanding of life in the East, which seeks to transform typical negative beliefs about foreign countries, and turn them into dreams of hope for those that wish to expand their worldly experience. The paper shows that through Kipling's poem, the unification of a British soldier in his dreams for India provide a far more open and racially tolerant account of life during the Age of British Imperialism.

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"This poetic study will reveal the aspects of cultural unity within the poem: "Mandalay" by the British poet Rudyard Kipling. Through this aspect of military life in the poem, a soldier desires to become more unified with the warmer, more hospitable climate of the East. In this aspect, the geography and culture of India becomes the dominating racial and cultural unifier for the soldier's perspective. In this manner, Rudyard Kipling presents a ballad styled poem, which unifies both aspects of British culture, in relation to cultural and racial values of India in the East. The opening verse of "Mandalay" is characteristic of the ballad format, which Rudyard uses to emulate the signing voice of a soldier that wishes for a greater station in life."

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