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Tommy" is an 1890 poem [1] by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. [2] The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. [ 3 ] It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war.
Many of Kipling's short stories were introduced with a short fragment of poetry, sometimes from an existing poem and sometimes an incidental new piece. These were often identified "A Barrack-Room Ballad", though not all the poems they were taken from would otherwise be collected or classed this way.
Both Kipling and Sullivan declined proffered fees for creating the song. [9] Artist Richard Caton Woodville, within several days, provided an illustration, titled "A Gentleman in Kharki", [Note 1] showing a wounded but defiant British Tommy in battle. This illustration was included in "art editions" of the poem and song. [10]
Tommy (Kipling poem), by Rudyard Kipling, 1892; Other uses in arts and entertainment. Tommy, a 1927 play, the basis of the 1930 film She's My Weakness;
The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls Scottish foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", [3] referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War. The film marked Malick's return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence.
In reply, William McGonagall wrote "Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins" in 1898, which was an attack on what McGonagall saw as the disparaging portrayal of Tommy in Kipling's poem. [4] In 1893, for the musical play A Gaiety Girl, Henry Hamilton (lyrics) and Samuel Potter (music) wrote the song Private Tommy Atkins for the baritone C. Hayden Coffin.
Kipling was a war hawk and a staunch supporter of the Allies, whom he viewed as standing in the way of the German forces. According to scholar Irene de Angelis "Kipling equated Germany’s policy of Schreklichkeit in Belgium with the collapse of civilization." [4] His poem was intended to serve as a call to arms against Germany. [5]
First publication. The first publication of a collection of seven stories called Soldiers Three was as No 1 of A.H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library, a slim volume of 97 pages printed at the “Pioneer” Press, Allahabad in 1888 called Soldiers Three: a collection of stories setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris and ...