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Unit 8: Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm by Rudyard Kipling

Intellectual: An intellectual is a person possessing a highly developed intellect. Notes
Mistiness: It means being full of, covered with, or accompanied by mist.
Resonance: It means the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating.
Unforeseen: Something which is cannot be anticipated or predicted.

Warfare: It means any kind of engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. True 2. True
3. False 4. True
5. False

8.5 Review Questions

1. Who is Rudyard Kipling?
2. Throw light on Rudyard Kipling life.
3. How did Rudyard Kipling die?

4. Throw light on Rudyard Kipling major works.
5. Why was Rudyard Kipling frustrated in the poem Before a Midnight breaks in Storm?
6. What is Rudyard Kipling’s reputation in modern-day India?

7. What happened to Kipling’s home at Burwash after his wife’s death?
8. What was G.V. Desani’s opinion about Rudyard Kipling?
9. What did Kipling do during World War I?
10. Explain the meaning of Kipling’s days of “strong light and darkness” in Bombay.

11. Who are ‘winged men’ according to Kipling in the poem Before a Midnight breaks in
Storm?

12. In the poem Before a Midnight breaks in storm, what did Kipling associate spiritualism
with?

8.6 Further Readings

Books Kipling R. (1994) The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Wordsworth Editions.

Kipling R. (2008) The Five Nations, Wildside Press LLC.
Orel H. (1989) Critical essays on Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Hall.
Parry A. (1992) The poetry of Rudyard Kipling: rousing the nation, Open University
Press.

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