Boots Moving Up and Down Again

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Why is the 1903 poem Boots" a 'popular vehicle for elocutionists'?
Boots
Poem lyrics of Boots by Rudyard Kipling.
We're foot-slog-slog-slog-sloggin' over Africa -
Foot-foot-pes-foot-sloggin' over Africa -
(Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again!) At that place'southward no discharge in the war!
Seven-half-dozen-11-five-nine-an'-twenty mile to-day - Iv-eleven-seventeen-xxx-two the day earlier -
(Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' downwards over again!) There'south no discharge in the war!
Don't-don't-don't-don't-look at what'due south in front end of you. (Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again) Men-men-men-men-men go mad with watchin' em,
An' in that location's no belch in the war!
Try-try-try-try-to call up o' something different -
Oh-my-God-keep-me from goin' lunatic!
(Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down once more!) There'south no discharge in the war!
Count-count-count-count-the bullets in the bandoliers. If-your-eyes-drop-they will become atop o' you lot!
(Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' upward an' down once again) - There'south no belch in the war!
We-tin can-stick-out-'unger, thirst, an' weariness,
But-non-not-non-non the chronic sight of 'em -
Boot-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' downwards once more,
An' at that place'due south no discharge in the war!
'Taint-so-bad-by-day because o' company,
Just night-brings-long-strings-o' forty m one thousand thousand Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' upward an' downwardly again.
There's no belch in the war!
I-'ave-marched-six-weeks in 'Ell an' certify
It-is-not-burn down-devils, night, or anything,
But boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down over again, An' there'south no discharge in the state of war!

Why is the 1903 poem Boots" a 'popular vehicle for elocutionists'? Boots Poem lyrics of Boots by Rudyard Kipling. We're foot-slog-slog-slog-sloggin' over Africa - Foot-human foot-human foot-foot-sloggin' over Africa - (Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again!) There'southward no belch in the war!

You tin't become out of the The states military any more. They know they won't be able to get enough volunteers to sign up for Bush-league'due south catastrophe.

john

Why is the 1903 poem Boots" a 'popular vehicle for elocutionists'?

Y'all put that in the present tense, equally if we are all familiar with elocutionists and their preferences. Are in that location any "teachers of elocution" these days?
Anyway, I see that the meter of this poem forces the reader to tiresome down and emphasize the words, and then that might be a desirable feature. I notice that the last line "There's no discharge in the war" does non fit that meter, and maybe that prevents the whole verse form from beingness likewise much of a steady sing-song.

Boots Nosotros're human foot-slog-slog-slog-sloggin' over Africa - Foot-foot-foot-foot-sloggin' over Africa - (Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' downward again!) In that location'due south no discharge in the ... think o' something different - Oh-my-God-keep-me from goin' lunatic! (Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again!) There's no discharge in the war!

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Best Donna Richoux

Why is the 1903 poem Boots" a 'popular vehicle for ... up an' downwardly again!) There's no discharge in the state of war!

You tin can't go out of the US military any more than. They know they won't exist able to go enough volunteers to sign up for Bush's catastrophe.

I'thou rare among my liberal confrères in liking Kipling, and I hold elocution in contempt. Unless y'all can show I'k incorrect, I'd say that the piece in question is probably no longer one of the elocutionists' favourites; merely until maybe 1950 Kipling was the simply poet whose piece of work was much known among lowbrow folk that was his mission (and nosotros are now the poorer for our poets' having retreated from the challenge). The verse form was popular for a generation or two. Information technology's dramatic, and highly rhythmic, and then it makes a good performasnce slice.

I speculate that two of the sounds British elocutionists wanted to train their pupils in were 'oo' and post-vocalic 't', since these are among the ones which distinguish the social classes in Britain. In this case, it would accept murdered the poem, which is meant to sound "common": Kipling was no political liberal, merely he wanted to give a voice to the unheard.
Mike.

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Why is the 1903 poem Boots" a 'popular vehicle for elocutionists'?

Beats the hell out of Vachel Lindsay.

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Why is the 1903 poem Boots" a 'pop vehicle for elocutionists'?

I took information technology most verbatim from a crossword puzzle. So I googled "Boots" and I was disappointed non to find any tongue twisters.

You put that in the nowadays tense, as if we are all familiar with elocutionists and their preferences. Are there any "teachers of elocution" these days?

Probably not. Too bad, considering I tin can use i.

Anyhow, I come across that the meter of this poem forces the reader to tiresome down and emphasize the words, so ... does not fit that meter, and perhaps that prevents the whole verse form from being too much of a steady sing-song.

Aha! And so the elocutionistics of "Boots" are in the rhythm.

I'm rare amidst my liberal confrères in liking Kipling, and I hold elocution in contempt. Unless you can show I'm ... folk that was his mission (and we are now the poorer for our poets' having retreated from the challenge).

I don't know much about RK's poetry, and the very little I read, I constitute rather amusing. But I'm not aback to admit that I really enjoyed "The Jungle Volume". The book and the movies, especially the cartoon.

The poem was popular for a generation or 2. It'due south dramatic, and highly rhythmic, so it makes a good performasnce slice.

Was it even more than popular that "If"?

Why is the 1903 poem Boots" a 'popular vehicle for elocutionists'?

You lot put that in the present tense, as if we are all familiar with elocutionists and their preferences. Are there any "teachers of elocution" these days?

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John Dean
Oxford

Don't know near "popular", but when I was at schoolhouse in the 60s, we were exposed to many of Kipling'due south "Barrack Room Ballads" (and related poems) - "Boots", "Gunga Din", "Danny Deever", "Tommy", "Mandalay", etc.

I loved them, and all the same do, politically right or not. Fifty-fifty Sir Henry Newbolt'south "Vitai Lampada" has a certain something, depite being in many ways the antithesis of Kipling'due south gritty paeans to the common soldier:

There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night Ten to brand and the match to win
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And information technology'south not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
Or the selfish promise of a season'south fame,
But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote
"Play upwardly! play up! and play the game!"
The sand of the desert is sodden cerise,
Red with the wreck of a square that broke;
The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with grit and smoke.
The river of death has brimmed his banks,
And England'southward far, and Honour a name,
But the voice of schoolboy rallies the ranks,
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
This is the discussion that twelvemonth by year
While in her place the Schoolhouse is set
Every one of her sons must hear,
And none that hears it dare forget.
This they all with a joyful heed
Deport through life like a torch in flame,
And falling fling to the host behind
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
Mike M