I haven't read enough Kipling, but reading through with the images was a fine way to spend a morning. Then I expanded the illustrations, and scrolled through them as a slideshow...thus "reading" it again with my eyes. Baron Gloster might have missed a trick.
Lovely ... all the illustrations are good additions to the story, but I'm a bit haunted by the "sheet ghost" (Just below the line, 'Tiny she looked on the grating -- that oily, treacly sea --). Not quite ready to go down ... yet? Liked it a lot.
That's what I thought, but when I looked up comments on the poem, it either assumed Dickie would do as told, or concentrated on what an evil capitalist Gloster was. It is really hard, for me at least, to find good commentary on Kipling poetry. They're too busy warning any reader about his bad politics or wrongthink.
I've now read it both ways now ... Dickie goes back, cash in hand ... and Dickie goes down with the ship. He learns about Death first hand, kind of thing.
I haven't read enough Kipling, but reading through with the images was a fine way to spend a morning. Then I expanded the illustrations, and scrolled through them as a slideshow...thus "reading" it again with my eyes. Baron Gloster might have missed a trick.
Kipling is long a favorite of mine. And the trick of illustrating is that I'm telling a story in parallel with the original, my own take on it.
Good idea!
If I've read the ending correctly, the owner planned all along to go down with his ship - and his son never realised...
That's how I read it, and illustrated it.
Nicely done!
Lovely ... all the illustrations are good additions to the story, but I'm a bit haunted by the "sheet ghost" (Just below the line, 'Tiny she looked on the grating -- that oily, treacly sea --). Not quite ready to go down ... yet? Liked it a lot.
There's no such thing as a TL;DR Kipling. That was wonderfully done, Mrs. Sanderson.
Does Dickie end up going down with the ship?
Strongly implied in the poem, and that’s how I wanted to illustrate it and give him his comeuppance.
That's what I thought, but when I looked up comments on the poem, it either assumed Dickie would do as told, or concentrated on what an evil capitalist Gloster was. It is really hard, for me at least, to find good commentary on Kipling poetry. They're too busy warning any reader about his bad politics or wrongthink.
I've now read it both ways now ... Dickie goes back, cash in hand ... and Dickie goes down with the ship. He learns about Death first hand, kind of thing.
Oof, this is why I avoid looking at the commentaries.
Delightful, thank you!
damn I feel that sometimes
I feel it, too. And hugs.
right back at'cha dear.
Chesterton and now Kipling. You're on a fine roll.
Splendid, both Kipling and what you've made of it.
I really enjoy poems that tell stories- and Kipling was a master at that.