And what should they know of England who only England know? — The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag, They are lifting their heads in the stillness to yelp at the English Flag ! Must we borrow a clout from the Boer — to plaster... Collected Verse - Page 126by Rudyard Kipling - 1907Full view - About this book
| Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1892 - 444 pages
...mob-insult to the Union Jack, the poet appeals to the four winds to put the rabble to shame. " Winds of the World, give answer ! They are whimpering to...heads in the stillness to yelp at the English flag." And one by one the winds give answer, and rehearse the deeds of English daring that they have witnessed... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - Poetry - 1990 - 84 pages
...crowds rent the air with shouts, and seemed to see significance in the incident. — DAILY PAPERS. Winds of the World, give answer? They are whimpering to...their heads in the stillness to yelp at the English Hag! Must we borrow a clout from the Boer — to plaster anew with dirt? An Irish liar's bandage, or... | |
| Frank Field - History - 1991 - 306 pages
...In 'The English Flag' they are told that they must venture abroad and discover their empire: Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to...should they know of England who only England know? Above all, in the famous lines that he wrote at the time of the Diamond Jubilee in 1897 he warned the... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...where 'r began. But the backbone of the Army is the noncommissioned man! 5694 'The English Flag' Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to...should they know of England who only England know? 5695 'The Female of the Species' The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 5696 'Fuzzy-... | |
| George N. Katsiaficas, Teodros Kiros - Education - 1998 - 250 pages
...two cultures Her own and her neighbour's. Every man has two races His own and the human race. Winds of the world give answer They are whimpering to and fro' And who should know of Africa Who only Africa know? WL van der Merwe University of Stellenbosch African... | |
| Paul Bensimon, Didier Coupaye - Culture - 1998 - 284 pages
...venus d'ailleurs sur la connaissance qu'a le lecteur de sa propre culture, Kipling a déjà répondu : "And what should they know of England who only England know ?" ("The English Flag"). Michel BALLARD LA TRADUCTION DU NOM PROPRE COMME NEGOCIATION Le thème de ce volume... | |
| Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui, Ricardo René Laremont - Africa - 2002 - 240 pages
...two cultures Her own and her neighbor's. Every man has two races His own and the human race. Winds of the world give answer They are whimpering to and fro And who should know of Africa Who only Africa know? NOTE This essay was delivered as the James S. Coleman... | |
| Marco Fazzini - Eccentric literature - 2004 - 274 pages
...should they know of England who only England know? 19 Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 2o2. The poor little street-bred people that vapour and...heads in the stillness to yelp at the English Flag! In their feeble disavowal of the sign of their nation's greatness, the "poor little street-bred people,"... | |
| Thomas Toughill - History - 2004 - 230 pages
...often adopted by British politicians. Kipling summed up this attitude neatly when he wrote, 'Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to...should they know of England who only England know?' To FDR, the only real threat to America emanating from Europe was Hitler and his expansionist Germany,... | |
| Marco Fazzini - History - 2004 - 270 pages
...in a poem like "The English Flag" is firmly located as a problem of the urban working class: Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to...should they know of England who only England know? 19 Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 202. 20 Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender... | |
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